FTW85LA193 · Cessna 210L
Cessna 210L · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) on approach
From Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport (BHM) to Midland Airpark (MDD)
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW85LA193
- 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 210L
- 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
- N93V
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport (BHM), Birmingham, ALTo Midland Airpark (MDD)
- 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
- 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
- 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 › Exhaustion
- Pilot in command › Fuel consumption calculations, misjudged
- Pilot in command › Fuel supply, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Preflight planning/preparation, inadequate
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Midland, TX, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE PLT ESTIMATED THAT THE DURATION OF FLT WOULD BE ABOUT 5 TO 5-1/2 HRS & THAT HE HAD APRX 7 HRS OF FUEL ON BOARD. HOWEVER, THE ACFT ENCOUNTERED HEAD WINDS DURING THE FLT, & AS IT WAS APPROACHING THE DESTINATION, THE ENG LOST POWER AFTER APRX 6 HRS OF FLT. SUBSEQUENTLY, AN EMERG LANDING WAS MADE ABOUT 1 MI FROM THE ARPT. DURING THE LADNING, THE NOSEWHEEL HIT A CLUMP OF GRASS & SEPARATED FROM THE ACFT. NO PREIMPACT PART FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION WAS FOUND THAT WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN THE ACDNT. A FUEL LINE WAS BROKEN DURING IMPACT WHICH ALLOWED FUEL TO DRAIN; THEREFORE, THE EXACT AMOUNT OF FUEL ON BOARD AT THE TIME OF THE ACDNT COULD NOT BE VERIFIED. THE INVESTIGATOR ESTIMATED THAT 93.5 GAL OF FUEL WOULD HAVE BEEN REQUIRED AT OPTIMUM CONDITIONS. THE ACFT'S FUEL CAPACITY WAS 90 GAL OF WHICH 1 GAL WAS UNUSABLE. THE PLT BELIEVED THERE WAS STILL USABLE FUEL ON BOARD WHEN THE ENG LOST POWER & SAID THAT HE HAD THE FUEL SELECTOR SET FOR THE FULLEST TANK.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW85LA193
- Event ID
- 20001214X36193
- Case number
- FTW85LA193
- 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: 714d477462d0e49f84bffa36c65c6c116109d61bbdc2a2c7e1c6d2ec898985d1; retrieved 2026-09-23T18:00:14.307Z.