- Date
- October 12, 1987, 23:00 local (Oct 13, 1987, 04:00 UTC)
- Place
- Bay St. Louis, MS
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N5770MCessna 310P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report May 16, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 32075
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
On ground/water encounter with terrain/water
Terrain condition - ditchFactor
Taxispeed - excessiveCause
Visual lookout - inadequateCause
Light condition - dark nightFactor
Complete gear collapsed
Analysis
According to the plt, the acft was being taxied to takeoff when it struck a drainage ditch at approximately 65 mph, collapsing the landing gear, damaging both wings, both engines, props & the fuselage structure. After this accident the acft was seized by U.S. Customs.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5770M
- Reported as
- Cessna 310P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310P0079
- Airframe hours
- 2,781
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-VO, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Milton, Ernest V.
- Registered owner
- Robert E Douglass III
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 6, 1987
- Airport
- 3R6 · Stennis Field
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
- 51
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,684 total · 49 in this make and model · 4,503 as pilot in command · 34 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GPT