- Date
- January 4, 1992, 19:54 local (Jan 5, 1992, 03:54 UTC)
- Place
- Bakersfield, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N9508TCessna 210
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920104000199A
- Case key
- 27532
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Probable cause
The pilot's attempt to restart the engine when there was evidence of a fuel leak. A factor in the accident was the fractured fuel line due to the improper installation and overtorque of the line by company maintenance.
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 certificated airline transport pilot and a passenger departed an intermediate fuel stop during a ferry flight to deliver the airplane to a new owner. After takeoff, the pilot smelled fuel and noticed fuel dripping into the cockpit from under the instrument panel. The pilot returned to the departure airport and during the landing roll-out, the engine quit. After rolling off the active portion of the runway, the pilot attempted to restart the engine. Flames erupted in the engine and cockpit. Investigation revealed that the flared end of a copper fuel pressure line from the fuel metering unit to the fuel pressure gage was fractured due to improper installation and overtorque. This condition allowed fuel to drip onto the alternate-air control cable, run through the firewall to the instrument panel and then drip into the cockpit.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9508T
- Reported as
- Cessna 210
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 57308
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-E, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Operator
- Steve Mccorkle
- Registered owner
- Steve Mccorkle
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 15, 1991 · 15 hours before
- Destination
- MRY · Monterey, CA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- BFL · Meadows Field, runway 12, 10,857 × 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
- 48
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 13,500 total · 550 in this make and model · 13,400 as pilot in command · 60 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BFL, 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.