CEN14LA461 · Cessna 310K
Lakepoint Aviation II Cessna 310K · Accident: loss of engine power (partial) during takeoff
From Captain Jack Thomas El Dorado Airport (KEQA) to Colonel James Jabara Airport (KAAO)
Event
- NTSB case
- CEN14LA461
- 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 310K
- 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
- N101JB
- Operator
- Lakepoint Aviation II
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Captain Jack Thomas El Dorado Airport (KEQA), El Dorado, KSTo Colonel James Jabara Airport (KAAO), Wichita, KS
- Aircraft age
- About 48 years (built 1966)
- 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
- Takeoff
- Defining eventThe 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 (partial)
- 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
- Aircraft › Aircraft power plant
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The pilot and passenger planned on conducting a proficiency flight in the twin-engine airplane. The pilot reported that, after a normal engine run-up and takeoff, they proceeded to another airport to conduct touch-and-go landings. The pilot landed the airplane, and, during takeoff, the airplane drifted left. He then added right rudder and checked his engine instruments and noted that the left engine was not producing full power; however, the airplane was traveling about 110 to 112 mph, so he chose to continue the takeoff. Shortly after becoming airborne, the pilot realized that the airplane was not accelerating or climbing. He then reduced engine power and conducted a forced landing.
An initial examination of the airplane revealed that the left engine's throttle cable had broken near the engine connection end. Further examination of the individual wire cable strands revealed fracture surfaces consistent with fatigue. The examination also revealed a shallow circumferential swage on the cable's tube/ball-type connection; however, it could not be determined if the shallow swage was due to improper manufacturing or deterioration of the joint over years/hours of use. The accident is consistent with the loss of left engine power due to a fatigue failure of its throttle cable. The throttle cable time/hours in service could not be determined because maintenance records were not available.
Probable cause
A fatigue failure of the left engine’s throttle cable, which resulted in the loss of left engine power.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CEN14LA461
- Event ID
- 20140827X95138
- Case number
- CEN14LA461
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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: f651a6381bd25b04046b1392094efbc2ddb124ff6169bd8d5dd4e11458a9dd28; retrieved 2026-09-16T01:41:28.104Z.