- Date
- January 28, 1989, 15:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Pensacola, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2638NCessna T310R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 31, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890128001819A
- Case key
- 32391
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to maintain the proper airspeed during the approach resulting in landing short of the runway and failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
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 plt reported that airspeed diminished while on final apch, resulting in a landing short of the rwy. During the landing roll he lost control of the acft. It travelled off the rwy and into a ditch. The plt did not report any malfunction of the acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2638N
- Reported as
- Cessna T310R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310R1664
- Airframe hours
- 1,582
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-BB, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Anthony R. Boccanfuso
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 10, 1988 · 14 hours before
- Airport
- 82J · Ferguson, runway 18, 2,800 × 40 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
- 42
- 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
- 500 total · 65 in this make and model · 332 as pilot in command · 16 in the last 90 days · 16 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PNS, 10 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 N2638N · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.