FTW95LA035 · Cessna T-210M
Stebbins Aviation Cessna T-210M · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) on approach
From East Texas Regional Airport (GGG) to East Texas Regional Airport (GGG)
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW95LA035
- 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
- 0 · 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
- General aviation
- 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 T-210M
- Aircraft type
- Cessna T-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
- N533CA
- Operator
- Stebbins Aviation
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From East Texas Regional Airport (GGG), Longview, TXTo East Texas Regional Airport (GGG), TX
- 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 91: General Aviation
- 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
- Approach · IFR final approach
- 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 starvation; Tree(s)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Fluid, fuel › Starvation
- Pilot in command › Fuel management, inadequate
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE ENGINE LOST POWER INSIDE THE OUTER MARKER ON A PRACTICE ILS APPROACH. ACCORDING TO THE PILOT, HE SWITCHED TANKS FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, BUT COULDN'T RESTART THE ENGINE. HE REPORTED THE RIGHT TANK FUEL GAUGE INDICATED FULL, AND THE LEFT GAUGE INDICATED 1/2 FULL WHILE HE WAS SWITCHING TANKS. THE AIRPLANE THEN DESCENDED INTO TREES 3/4 MI FROM THE APPROACH END OF THE RUNWAY AND CAME TO REST APPROX WINGS LEVEL AND SLIGHTLY NOSE DOWN. DURING AIRCRAFT RECOVERY 19 HRS AFTER THE ACCIDENT, THE RIGHT FUEL TANK WAS OBSERVED TO BE EMPTY, AND THE LEFT FUEL TANK CONTAINED 27 GALS OF FUEL. NO FUEL SPILLAGE WAS NOTED AT THE SITE. THE RIGHT WING FUEL TANK WAS CHECKED FOR LEAKS; A 1 DROP PER SECOND LEAK WAS NOTED NEAR A DAMAGED AREA OF THE WING LEADING EDGE WHICH WAS CRUSHED BACK TO THE SPAR. NO PREVIOUS FUEL STAINS WERE NOTED NEAR THE CRUSHED AREA. THE ENGINE OPERATED NORMALLY DURING POST ACCIDENT TESTS ON BOTH LEFT AND RIGHT FUEL TANK SELECTOR VALVES.
Probable cause
LOSS OF ENGINE POWER DUE TO INADEQUATE FUEL MANAGEMENT AND FUEL STARVATION. A FACTOR WAS THE LACK OF SUITABLE TERRAIN AVAILABLE FOR THE FORCED LANDING.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW95LA035
- Event ID
- 20001206X02455
- Case number
- FTW95LA035
- 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: ac58bdd53d556d9b22339ecd4efc21a16de1fc9f51f91b22124ec2edfa720c09; retrieved 2026-09-21T22:27:12.519Z.