Executive Air Charter Cessna T210N accident
Cessna T210N · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) en route
From Abilene Regional Airport (ABI) to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW)
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW85FA257
- 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
- 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
- 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
- N6993N
- Operator
- Executive Air Charter
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Abilene Regional Airport (ABI), Abilene, TXTo Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), DFW AIRPORT, 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 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 · cruise
- 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; 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
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Fluid, fuel › Exhaustion
- Pilot in command › Unsafe/hazardous condition warning, not identified
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PILOT EXPERIENCED ENGINE POWER FAILURE DUE TO FUEL EXHAUSTION FOR UNKNOWN REASONS SINCE ABOUT 30 GALLONS OF FUEL SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON BOARD WHEN THE CRASH OCCURRED. THE PILOT WAS VECTORED TOWARD THE NEAREST AIRPORT BUT WAS UNABLE TO REACH IT AND CRASHED INTO A ROUGH AND ROCKY TREE-COVERED HILLSIDE ABOUT ONE-HALF MILE SHORT OF THE APPROACH END OF THE INTENDED RUNWAY. AN OPERATIONAL CHECK OF THE ENGINE AT A LATER DATE REVEALED NO EVIDENCE OF ABNORMALITIES.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW85FA257
- Event ID
- 20001214X36774
- Case number
- FTW85FA257
- 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 1985-06-15.
- API snapshot SHA-256: c120f0a7a1fcb88143ff673799c08e648b732c89f023b0e7ce1c4c0db4923e79; retrieved 2026-09-18T20:21:40.742Z.