- Date
- September 6, 1983, 14:10 local (18:10 UTC)
- Place
- Gainesville, FL
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N6482YCessna T-210N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830906047259A
- Case key
- 30803
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft collided with a ditch during a forced landing after engine failure in flt. The plt stated that during the climbto cruise the engine quit. He attempted to restart it once and then executed a forced landing. Examination of the acft wreckage revealed the acft lying on its back. The left fuel tank had some fuel in it and the vegetation beneath the tankcap and vent was brown and smelled of fuel. The right fuel tank was empty and the vegetation beneath it was green and had no fuel odor. The fuel selector was on the right tank. Post accident engine run on 2/24/84 was satisfactory.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6482Y
- Reported as
- Cessna T-210N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21064400
- Airframe hours
- 762
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520R, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Charter Air, doing business as Sunny South
- Registered owner
- Fredrick J. Swift
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 11, 1983 · 82 hours before
- Departed
- GNV · Gainesville, FL
- Destination
- BOW · Bartow, FL
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
- 57
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,276 total · 597 in this make and model · 126 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GNV, 14 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.