- Date
- August 5, 2023, 16:41 local (22:41 UTC)
- Place
- Indian Creek, ID · Indian Creek USFS Airport
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N7067ZCessna T210M
- Defining event
- Enroute: Fuel starvation
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20230805010539A
- Case key
- 192906
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper fuel management, which resulted in fuel starvation, and gear up landing on a dirt airstrip.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot of the airplane reported that, while enroute, the engine was running rough and the airplane subsequently lost power. His attempts to restore power were unsuccessful. Due to high airspeed and low altitude the pilot elected to land gear up on a dirt airstrip which resulted in substantial damage to the underside of the airplane. Postaccident examination revealed 18 gallons of fuel in the right fuel tank and the left fuel tank was void of fuel; neither fuel tank was breached. The operator of the airplane reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7067Z
- Reported as
- Cessna T210M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21062572
- Built
- 1978
- Airframe hours
- 13,035.1
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-R, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 135
- Operator
- Gem Air, Lcc
- Registered owner
- Spirit Air Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 11, 2023 · 2.5 hours before
- Departed
- KSMN · Salmon, ID
- Destination
- KBOI · Boise, ID
- Flight plan
- Company VFR
- Airport
- S81 · Indian Creek Usfs, runway 04, 4,650 × 40 ft, dirt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Stall warning system
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
- 60
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- June 7, 2022
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 1,369 total · 17 in this make and model · 1,338 as pilot in command · 123 in the last 90 days · 85 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.25 inHg
- Observed at
- KLLJ, 41 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KLLJ 051755Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 20/12 A3025
Docket · 5
The files NTSB released with the investigation on January 4, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 6.7 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.