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DEN82AA127 · Cessna 310I

5 Jul 1982 · Denver, CO, United States

Cessna 310I · Accident: loss of engine power on approach

From Tulsa International Airport (TUL) to C · Piedmont, SC

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Event

NTSB case
DEN82AA127
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
2 · 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 310I

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
N8818N
Operator
Richard C. Torrey · private individual
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route Possible conflict
From Tulsa International Airport (TUL), Tulsa, OKTo C · Piedmont, SC
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 downwind
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 engine power
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
Stall
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

  • Atc personnel(lcl/gnd/clnc) › All available runway, disregarded
  • Atc personnel(lcl/gnd/clnc) › Control tower service, poor
  • Atc personnel(lcl/gnd/clnc) › Instructions, written/verbal, improper
  • Pilot in command › Airspeed(vmc), below
  • Pilot in command › Anxiety/apprehension
  • Pilot in command › Gear extension, premature
  • Pilot in command › In-flight planning/decision, improper
  • Reason for occurrence undetermined

Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.

NTSB narrative

UPON ARRIVING IN THE DENVER AREA, THE PLT HAD PENETRATED 15 MI INTO THE TCA BEFORE BEING RADAR IDENTIFIED. HE WAS INSTRUCTED BY THE APCH CTLR TO CONTACT TOWER BY TELFON AFTER LANDING. AFTER SWITCHING TO TOWER FREQ HE HAD TO MODIFY HISRIGHT BASE TO RWY 8L TO A DOWNWIND DUE DEPARTING TRAFFIC. HE THEN NOTIFIED TOWER OF A RIGHT ENG FAILURE. HE WAS CLEARED TO LAND RWY 8L BUT MADE A FINAL APCH TO RWY 8R INSTEAD. WHILE IN A POSITION TO LAND ON RWY 8R, AN ACFT ON THE RWY VOLUNTEERED TO CLEAR THE RWY BUT WAS TOLD NOT TO BY THE LOCAL CTLR. AFTER THE C-310 CLEARED THE ACFT ON THE RWY, & AT ABOUT 400 FT ABOVE THE RWY, R ENG FEATHERED, GEAR DOWN, ABOUT 8,000 FT OF RWY REMAINING, THE SUPERVISOR CTLR SUGGESTED THAT THE PLT MAKE A RIGHT TURN & COME BACK AROUND AGAIN TO WHICH THE PLT COMPLIED. AFTER COMPLETING 3/4 OF THIS SINGLE- ENG GO-AROUND INTO THE DEAD ENG, THE PLT WAS ASKED TO EXTEND HIS GEAR AT WHICH TIME THE ACFT STALLED. NEITHER CTLR WAS PLT RATED. AT NO TIME PRIOR TO THE GO-AROUND WERE ALL RWYS, TAXIWAYS, GRASS AREAS MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PLT.

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Sources

NTSB record DEN82AA127
Event ID
20020917X03108
Case number
DEN82AA127
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: 42081e0ffc85d3313add6b02a1b36998d66c5310e730d85733622b2cee3aef74; retrieved 2026-09-21T08:08:02.904Z.