- Date
- May 12, 1989, 13:40 local (20:40 UTC)
- Place
- Upland, CA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N5368VCessna T210L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 29, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890512011379A
- Case key
- 26406
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Probable cause
Inadequate in-flight planning/decision by the pilot in command, the instructor pilot. Factors were the private pilot did not switch the fuel tanks and the instructor did not catch it.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
According to the instructor pilot, the dual student was a private pilot with single and multiengine and instrument ratings. This was to be a standard checkout in the Cessna 210 airplane. After almost and hour of airwork, including three landings to full stop at another airport, the airplane was in the home traffic pattern when the engine quit. The private dual student did not react and approximately 300 feet were lost before the instructor took control of the airplane. At that point the altitude and distance to the runway was critical but the instructor made the airport but impacted in a nose-down, left wing low attitude. The nose wheel collapsed rearward and was imbedded within the bottom of the fuselage. The fuel selector valve was found to be turned to the left fuel tank and that tank was empty. The right fuel tank contained approximately 20 gallons. During the impact sequence, a Beech 19, N6553R, that was tied down and was unoccupied, was struck by the accident airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5368V
- Reported as
- Cessna T210L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21060921
- Airframe hours
- 2,028
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-H4, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Cable Air
- Registered owner
- Ernie Zinke & Ken Jones
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 20, 1989 · 29 hours before
- Departed
- CCB
- Airport
- CCB · Cable, runway 24, 3,785 × 75 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 39
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 502 total · 20 in this make and model · 422 as pilot in command · 165 in the last 90 days · 120 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.