SEA83LA165 · Cessna T210L
Cessna T210L · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) on approach
From San Gabriel Valley Airport (EMT) to U59 · Driggs, ID
Event
- NTSB case
- SEA83LA165
- 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 T210L
- 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
- N5469V
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From San Gabriel Valley Airport (EMT), ELMONTE, CATo U59 · Driggs, ID
- 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 · VFR pattern final
- 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 supply, not maintained
- Pilot in command › In-flight planning/decision, improper
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Driggs, ID, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
THE PLT STATED THAT THE FUEL TANKS WERE TOPPED OFF ON THE DAY BEFORE HE DEPARTED EL MONTE, CA. HE ESTIMATED THAT THE ACFT HAD 534 LBS OF FUEL ON BOARD & CONSUMED 80 PPH DURING CRUISE AT 9500 FT MSL. ACCORDING TO THE PLTS OPERATING MANUAL, THE ACFT HAD AN ENDURANCE OF 6.7 HRS WITH NO RESERVE. DURING THE FLT, THE PLT SWITCHED TANKS AT 1/4 TANK INTERVALS. WHEN HE WAS ABOUT 40 MI FROM HIS DESTINATION, THE LEFT TANK WAS EXHAUSTED. HE SELECTED THE RIGHT TANK & HAD AN INDICATION THAT IT WAS STILL 1/4 FULL. WHILE ON FINAL APPROACH TO THE DRIGGS MUNI ARPT, THE ENGINE LOST POWER. WHILE LANDING IN A FIELD, THE NOSE WHEEL ENCOUNTERED A SHARP HOLE & FAILED, THEN THE ACFT WENT OVER ON ITS TOP. NO FUEL WAS FOUND IN EITHER FUEL TANK DURING AN ON SCENE EXAMINATION.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record SEA83LA165
- Event ID
- 20001214X44355
- Case number
- SEA83LA165
- 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: 4c691d74e990a9f41e67e1f8976284c40ed8786da23952f508d78740750e33cf; retrieved 2026-09-23T21:37:29.121Z.