- Date
- October 5, 1987, 19:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place
- Inverness, FL
- Injuries
- 4 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N3815XCessna 310K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report December 27, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871005058749A
- Case key
- 31984
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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
Witnesses stated that the plt initiated a go around at the runway 19 threshold, broke off to the right & went behind a tree line in a 60 degree right bank. On the other side of the tree line the acft was observed to strike the trees with the left wing and impact the ground inverted. A witness in another acft that had just turned off the rwy said there was no readily apparent reason for the go-around.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3815X
- Reported as
- Cessna 310K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310K0215
- Airframe hours
- 2,882
- Engine
- Continental IO-470, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Gary J. Edwards
- Registered owner
- Bmc Associates Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 22, 1987
- Airport
- X40 · Inverness, runway 19, 3,060 × 60 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
- 44
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,900 total · 65 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 70° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GNV, 50 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.