- Date
- May 2, 1993, 17:16 local (21:16 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Injuries
- 2 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N7656QCessna 310Q
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930502011499A
- Case key
- 33264
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's failure to insure the aircraft contained adequate fuel to complete the flight, which resulted in loss of power in both engines due to fuel exhaustion.
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 to ATC that the left engine had quit and that he was low on fuel for the right engine. About 10 minutes later the pilot reported the right engine had quit. Shortly after this, the aircraft was ditched in the atlantic ocean about 10 miles southeast of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The passenger seated in the right middle seat stated the fuel gauge for the left fuel tank read 'zero' at the time the left engine quit, and that the right fuel tank gauge read '10' at this time. The passenger stated the right engine quit about 15 minutes after the left engine.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7656Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 310Q
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 310Q0277
- Airframe hours
- 6,625
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-VO, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Locair, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Locair, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 17, 1993 · 17 hours before
- Departed
- MYNN · Nassau, OF
- Flight plan
- VFR
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 27
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,200 total · 178 in this make and model · 1,150 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FLL, 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.