- Date
- May 25, 1990, 15:05 local (19:05 UTC)
- Place
- Palm Harbor, FL
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N6697XCessna 210A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 29, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900525017649A
- Case key
- 32665
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Probable cause
The improper leaning of the fuel/air mixture resulting in the loss of engine power due to excessive internal engine temperature.
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
According to the plt, the flt departed after a normal eng run-up with cowl flaps open. During normal cruise flt, he leaned the mixture to 50 degs rich of peak, but while returning to land, he observed the EGT gauge indicate past the maximum red line limit. He further stated that the eng began 'faltering.' He pushed the mixture to full rich, repositioned the fuel selector, turned the electric boost pump switch to high, and repositioned the mag switch from both to left, right, then back to both with negative results. After touchdown in a field during the forced landing, the acft was substantially damaged. The eng operated normally during the post-accident eng run. Each magneto was correctly timed. The position of the cowl flaps at the time of departure & prior to the eng failure could not be verified.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6697X
- Reported as
- Cessna 210A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21057697
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-E, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Heinz, Charles D.
- Registered owner
- Dusek, John A
- Departed
- PIE · St Petersburg, 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
- 34
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 2,200 total · 100 in this make and model · 1,900 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 80° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- PIE, 15 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.