- Date
- March 14, 1985, 13:05 local (18:05 UTC)
- Place
- Sugar Loaf Key, FL
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N5291GCessna 305A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850314041479A
- Case key
- 31369
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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 engine failed just after takeoff and the acft landed in a field north of the arpt, collided with trees and nosed over. Post accident examination of the fuel system shows that the acft micron fuel filter was contaminated to the extent that it caused insufficient fuel flow, resulting in the engine failure at the sustained takeoff power setting.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5291G
- Reported as
- Cessna 305A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 23413
- Airframe hours
- 1,862
- Engine
- Continental O-470, 240 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Other work use · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Bart F. Spadaro
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Restricted (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 6, 1984
- Departed
- 7X1 · Sugarloaf Key, FL
- Airport
- 7X1 · Sugarload Shores
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
- 40
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 8,071 total · 1,004 in this make and model · 7,500 as pilot in command · 200 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TMB, 85 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.
Other investigations on N5291G · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.