FTW82DA059 · Cessna 310D
Cessna 310D · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) during initial climb
From Farmerville, LA to Farmerville, LA
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW82DA059
- 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 310D
- 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
- N6822T
- Operator
- John D. Bolton · private individual
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Farmerville, LATo Farmerville, LA
- 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
- Initial climb
- 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 contamination; 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 › Contamination
- Fluid, fuel › Water
- Other maintenance personnel › Maintenance, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Aircraft preflight, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Gear retraction, not performed
- Propeller system/accessories, prop blade retention › Undertorqued
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
BEFORE THIS FLIGHT, THE AIRCRAFT HAD NOT BEEN FLOWN FOR A PERIOD OF TIME. THE PILOT WAS THE OWNER OF A MAINTENANCE FACILITY AND WAS PREPARING TO PERFORM AN ANNUAL INSPECTION OF THE AIRCRAFT. HE ELECTED TO FLY IT AROUND THE AIRPORT TO WARM UP THE ENGINES BEFORE DRAINING THE CRANKCASE. SHORTLY AFTER TAKEOFF, THE LEFT ENGINE LOST POWER. THE PILOT WAS UNABLE TO RESTART THE ENGINE. HE ATTEMPTED TO FEATHER THE PROPELLER, BUT STATED THAT IT WOULD NOT STOP ROTATING. THE LANDING GEAR WAS NOT RETRACTED, AND THE AIRCRAFT WOULD NOT MAINTAIN ALTITUDE WITH THE GEAR DOWN. THE PLANE DESCENDED AND COLLIDED WITH TREES. WATER AND TRASH WAS FOUND IN THE FUEL LINES. THE PILOT STATED THAT THE LEFT ENGINE AND PROPELLER DID NOT IMPACT WITH AN OBJECT. BUT ONE BLADE WAS FEATHERED AND ONE WAS NOT. NO DISCREPANCIES WERE FOUND WITH THE INTERNAL PARTS OF THE PROPELLER, BOTH BLADE CLAMPS WERE IN THE FEATHERED POSITION. ALL BLADE CLAMP BOLTS WERE UNDERTORQUED.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW82DA059
- Event ID
- 20020917X02012
- Case number
- FTW82DA059
- 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: 0af078505323f8cf07878aaff7583024520e54394ed88a405cab96a91cdac62f; retrieved 2026-09-24T03:40:48.694Z.