H & H Aviation Cessna T210N II accident
Cessna T210N II · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) en route
From Spokane International Airport (GEG) to Boise Air Terminal/Gowen Field (BOI)
Event
- NTSB case
- SEA94FA062
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna T210N II
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 210
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N5182Y
- Operator
- H & H Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Spokane International Airport (GEG), Spokane, WATo Boise Air Terminal/Gowen Field (BOI), Boise, ID
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 135: Air Taxi & Commuter
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- En route · descent
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Total loss of engine power (non-mechanical)
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Fuel exhaustion; Stall
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Stall, inadvertent
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PILOT DECLARED TO ATC THAT HE HAD A PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER, THEN MADE A LONG DESCENT IN VISUAL CONDITIONS, AND WAS FATALLY INJURED WHEN THE AIRCRAFT COLLIDED WITH TERRAIN DURING THE FORCED LANDING. ONSITE EXAMINATION OF THE WRECKAGE REVEALED LESS THAN 1/2 GALLON OF FUEL IN THE LEFT TANK. THE FUEL SELECTOR WAS POSITIONED TO THE LEFT TANK AND WAS OPERABLE. A SMALL AMOUNT OF FUEL LEAKED OUT OF THE RIGHT TANK FOLLOWING THE ACCIDENT. THE ENGINE WAS SUCCESSFULLY TEST RUN FOLLOWING THE ACCIDENT. WITNESSES REPORTED OBSERVING THE AIRCRAFT STALL AS THE LANDING GEAR WAS EXTENDED. THE FLAPS WERE FOUND EXTENDED APPROXIMATELY 5 DEGREES. MODERATE WINDS FROM THE EAST WERE REPORTED IN SOUTHWESTERN IDAHO AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT.
Probable cause
AN INADVERTENT STALL. FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WERE FUEL EXHAUSTION AND THE TAILWIND.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record SEA94FA062
- Event ID
- 20001206X00812
- Case number
- SEA94FA062
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: a98cb6a172319499b835160ccd8ef29990ee4e780a900816bb711972235a3ed1; retrieved 2026-09-18T13:50:03.151Z.