- Date
- January 28, 1991, 05:06 local (10:06 UTC)
- Place
- Orlando, FL
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N210GCCessna 210L
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910128001209A
- Case key
- 32743
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control in instrument conditions and his spatial disorientation. Factors were a failure of the vacuum pump and the pilot's lack of recent experience in partial panel instrument flying or training.
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 pilot reported a vacuum pump failure to his company operations and air traffic control by airplane radio. While being vectored for an ILS backcourse approach in instrument conditions, the airplane collided with terrain.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N210GC
- Reported as
- Cessna 210L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21060682
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-L-4-B, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Flight Express
- Registered owner
- Flight Express
- Departed
- FXE · Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- 30
- Certificates
- Commercial, Private, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 3,261 total · 1,848 in this make and model · 2,708 as pilot in command · 353 in the last 90 days · 197 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 200° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ORL, 12 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.