- Date
- December 21, 1988, 15:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Cedar Key, FL
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N2251FCessna 310L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 4, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881221055459A
- Case key
- 32270
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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 evidence indicated that personnel failed to tighten a fuel line at the fuel pressure switch on left engine resulting in fuel line leaking into the engine compartment in flight. An inflight fire burned through a fuel crossfeed fuel line which could not be shutoff by the pilot. The aircraft contacted water in a left wing low attitude resulting in the aircraft cartwheeling.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2251F
- Reported as
- Cessna 310L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310L-0051
- Airframe hours
- 1,857
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-V, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- In-Flight
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Cyril, Ronald A.
- Registered owner
- J Allen Waters
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 20, 1988 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- SQR · Sarasota, FL
- Destination
- TLH · Tallahassee, 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
- 50
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 2,110 total · 1,365 in this make and model · 1,940 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GNV, 53 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.