- Date
- June 6, 1992, 18:09 local (22:09 UTC)
- Place
- Summerfield, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N69HSCessna 310-R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920606018469A
- Case key
- 33096
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot-in-command to switch the fuel selectors in flight which caused both engines to fail due to fuel starvation. Contributing to the accident was the complacency of the pilot-in-command.
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 stated that while in cruise flight both engines failed and he executed a forced landing to a pasture. During the landing the airplane struck a fence post. After the accident he remembered that he had forgotton to switch the fuel selectors from the auxiliary tanks to the main tanks.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N69HS
- Reported as
- Cessna 310-R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310P-0109
- Airframe hours
- 4,259
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-V, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Harold T. Spears
- Registered owner
- Harold T. Spears
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 1, 1992 · 14 hours before
- Departed
- MGM · Montgomery, AL
- Destination
- LAL · Lakeland, FL
- Flight plan
- IFR
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 62
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,450 total · 1,450 in this make and model · 50 in the last 90 days · 29 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OCF, 20 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.