- Date
- January 17, 1988, 13:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Stowe, VT
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N94064Cessna 210
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 3, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880117000819A
- Case key
- 36084
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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 Cessna 210 took off and shortly thereafter experienced a loss of power. The pilot was unable to get the engine restarted and made an off-airport landing in a grove of trees. On-scene examination by the FAA showed that the fuel selector was on the left tank. The left tank was empty and there was no fuel in the associated fuel lines.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N94064
- Reported as
- Cessna 210
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21060493
- Airframe hours
- 2,370
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-H, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Sea Air Associates
- Registered owner
- Sea Air Associates
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 9, 1987 · 100 hours before
- Departed
- MVL · Morrisville, VT
- Destination
- PWM · Portland, ME
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- MVL · Stowe-State, runway 1, 3,700 × 75 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
- 39
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 4,250 total · 50 in this make and model · 4,015 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 600 ft broken
- Temperature
- 36 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.