FTW95LA078 · Cessna 310Q
Cessna 310Q · Accident: loss of control in flight during landing
From E0S · Neosho, MO to Guthrie-Edmond Regional Airport (GOK)
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW95LA078
- 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
- Instrument Meteorological Cond
Cessna 310Q
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 310
- 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
- N3848X
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From E0S · Neosho, MOTo Guthrie-Edmond Regional Airport (GOK)
- 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
- Landing · flare/touchdown
- 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
- Loss of control in flight
- 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
- Stall
- 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
- Pilot in command › Flight into known adverse weather, performed
- Pilot in command › Stall, inadvertent
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
WEATHER BRIEFINGS INCLUDED LOW CEILINGS AND THE POSSIBILITY OF ICING UP TO 15,000 FEET MSL. EN ROUTE PILOT REPORTS INCLUDED MODERATE RIME ICING FROM 10,000 FEET MSL DOWN TO 6,000 FEET MSL. AS THE FLIGHT CRUISED AT 4,000 FEET MSL THE PILOT MONITORED THE OAT AT PLUS 5 DEGREES CENTIGRADE. ABOUT 50 MILES NORTHEAST OF OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, THE FLIGHT ENCOUNTERED MODERATE TURBULENCE AND ICING CONDITIONS AS THE OAT DROPPED TO O DEGREES CENTIGRADE. AS TRACES OF ICE WERE DETECTED ON THE WINDSHIELD AND THE WINGS THE PILOT REQUESTED AND WAS CLEARED TO 3,000 FEET MSL FOR THE ADF RUNWAY 19 APPROACH TO GUTHRIE, OKLAHOMA. ICE CONTINUED TO FORM ON THE AIRPLANE AT A RATE THAT MADE THE HANDLING OF THE AIRPLANE DIFFICULT. SPEED WAS MAINTAINED IN EXCESS OF 120 KNOTS. DURING THE LANDING FLARE THE AIRPLANE STALLED 10 FEET ABOVE THE RUNWAY, RESULTING IN SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE. RIME ICE WAS FOUND ON THE WINGS, VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL STABILIZER. THE AIRPLANE WAS NOT EQUIPPED WITH DEICE EQUIPMENT AND WAS NOT APPROVED FOR FLIGHT INTO ICING CONDITIONS.
Probable cause
THE PILOT'S FLIGHT INTO KNOWN ADVERSE WEATHER RESULTING IN AN INADVERTENT STALL. A FACTOR WAS ICING CONDITIONS.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW95LA078
- Event ID
- 20001206X02732
- Case number
- FTW95LA078
- 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: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1995-01-01.
- API snapshot SHA-256: afc91c95e7f7c208c5e97f8e9814f8f9fa01e416cdb2446bcb6d8eee26f86a58; retrieved 2026-09-23T00:21:00.612Z.