NYC08LA061 · Cessna 310J
Cessna 310J · Accident: loss of control in flight on approach
From Orlando Executive Airport (ORL) to Hilton Head Airport (HXD)
Event
- NTSB case
- NYC08LA061
- 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
- Unknown
- 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 310J
- 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
- N310RV
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Orlando Executive Airport (ORL), Orlando, FLTo Hilton Head Airport (HXD), Hilton Head Island, 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 go-around
- 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
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Aircraft control, not maintained
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The pilot was attempting to land on a 4,300-foot-long, 100-foot-wide, asphalt runway. During the flare, the airplane "ballooned" and floated beyond approximately two-thirds of the runway. The pilot "briskly" advanced the throttles to initiate a go-around; however, the airplane rolled and yawed right, and then contacted the ground off the right side of the runway. The pilot stated that at the time of the go-around, the airplane was below the minimum single engine maneuvering speed (Vmc), and the right engine either lost all power or failed to attain full power. The pilot could not recall the exact airspeed or engine rpm at the time of the accident. The pilot-rated passenger stated that at the time of the go-around, the airplane was "very slow," about 80 knots. The passenger further stated that he remembered hearing an increase in engine noise, but he could not be sure if it was an increase in one or both engines. He was also uncertain if the right engine lost partial or total power. The published Vmc for the accident airplane was 87 miles per hour (mph), and the published recommended safe single engine speed was 102 mph. The pilot obtained his multiengine rating about 3 months prior to the accident. He reported a total flight experience of 379.5 hours; of which, 93.4 hours were in multiengine airplanes, with 81.9 hours in the same make and model as the accident airplane. Examination of the wreckage did not reveal any preimpact mechanical malfunctions.
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during a go-around.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record NYC08LA061
- Event ID
- 20080110X00037
- Case number
- NYC08LA061
- 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, coordinates. 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: 65d31bc8db573c91ded75e5097483f7555eab5a0cf930e9d6381cdef052be52a; retrieved 2026-09-22T03:14:13.866Z.