- Date
- September 14, 1991, 12:24 local (19:24 UTC)
- Place
- Lakewood, CA
- Injuries
- 3 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N2049SCessna T210L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910914039979A
- Case key
- 27024
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Probable cause
An undetermined loss of engine power and the pilot's failure to maintain airspeed during the forced landing.
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 aircraft had been parked in a hanger for 45 days while undergoing an annual inspection. After the inspection was completed the fuel tanks were serviced. The pilot and two passengers then took off on an instrument departure from the airport. Witnesses observed the aircraft to begin a left turn, as instructed by the airtraffic controller, then enter a steep right spiraling descent. The aircraft impacted a commercial building immediately outside the airport boundary. The propeller blades displayed evidence of minimal rotation at impact.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2049S
- Reported as
- Cessna T210L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21061016
- Airframe hours
- 2,335
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-H, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Eagle Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Eagle Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 8, 1991 · 1 hours before
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- LGB · Daugherty Field, runway 25, 5,420 × 150 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
- 67
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,906 total · 1,352 in this make and model · 1,472 as pilot in command · 49 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,700 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LGB, 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.