MKC85FA036 · Cessna 310L
Lazy Eight Flying Club Cessna 310L · Accident: loss of control in flight en route
From Lee C Fine Memorial Airport (AIZ) to Five Mile Airport (MO49)
Event
- NTSB case
- MKC85FA036
- 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
- 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 310L
- 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
- N3325X
- Operator
- Lazy Eight Flying Club
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Lee C Fine Memorial Airport (AIZ), KAISER, MOTo Five Mile Airport (MO49), Washington, MO
- 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
- En route · holding (IFR)
- 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
- 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 › Directional control, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Diverted attention
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE ACFT WAS OBSERVED DEPARTING THE AIRPORT TO THE SOUTH CLIMBING. IFR FLT CONDITIONS PREVAILED IN THE AREA. THE PLT RPTD VFR AT 2000 FT. THE ACFT WAS NOTED BY PASSENGERS OF AN EARLIER FLIGHT TO HAVE MALFUNCTIONING AUTOPILOT ALTITUDE ANDGUIDANCE INSTRUMENTATION. NO RECORD OF REPAIRS TO THESE FLIGHT INSTRUMENTS PRIOR TO THIS FLT WERE FOUND. NOR DID THE PLTREQUEST ANY ASSISTANCE FOR THEIR REPAIR. THE PLT REQUESTED AND RCVD IFR CLEARANCE TO HIS INTENDED DESTINATION. THE ACFT WAS HEARD DESCENDING UNTIL IMPACTING THE GROUND. THE ACFT IMPACTED THE GROUND IN A NEARLY VERTICAL ANGLE, BREAKING ONLY TWO TREE BRANCHES DURING THE VERTICAL DESCENT. NO MECHANICAL MALFUNCTION OF THE AIRFRAME OR ENGINES WAS DISCOVERED.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MKC85FA036
- Event ID
- 20001214X41863
- Case number
- MKC85FA036
- 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 1984-12-20.
- API snapshot SHA-256: d3079babf6f1df8d43add1778c335f861b3a39c6880dd6f6f3b481beb1a0480f; retrieved 2026-09-21T05:12:12.891Z.