- Date
- April 3, 1990, 11:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Chino, CA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N9426KCessna T210L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900403007519A
- Case key
- 26769
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Probable cause
Fuel starvation due to the fuel tank outlets becoming unported as the aircraft maneuvered for landing. A factor was the pilot's preflight planning failed to insure that he had adequate fuel for the flight.
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
The ferry pilot was enroute to his maintenance base on an IFR flight plan when the aircraft had a total loss of power after being cleared to land and landed short of the runway. Examination of the fuel system disclosed the fuel tanks contained 9.5 useable gallons of fuel. The Cessna pilots safety supplement states that, when the tanks contain 11 gallons or less, prolonged uncoordinated flight can unport the fuel tank outlets and cause fuel starvation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9426K
- Reported as
- Cessna T210L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 210-60572
- Airframe hours
- 2,450
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-HCR, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Operator
- Vasco Afonso Rodrigues
- Registered owner
- Joseph M. Rosen
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 26, 1989 · 25 hours before
- Departed
- LGB · Long Beach, CA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- CNO · Chino, runway 3, 6,222 × 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
- 29
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,515 total · 1,000 in this make and model · 1,300 as pilot in command · 82 in the last 90 days · 38 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CNO, 1 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.