Cessna 310D accident near Provo, UT
On April 17, 2003, a Cessna 310D (airplane) was involved in an accident near Provo, UT. 3 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- April 17, 2003
- Place
- Provo, UT
- Aircraft
- Cessna 310D · Airplane
- Injuries
- 3 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 40.242°N, 111.718°W
- NTSB ID
- 20030428X00586
Official records · DEN03FA068
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On April 17, 2003, at 1739 mountain daylight time, a Cessna 310D, N6861T, registered to Smith & Barlow Enterprises, Inc., and operated by Advantage Aviation, Inc., both of Provo, Utah, impacted terrain 1.07 miles north of the Provo Municipal Airport, Provo, Utah. Three commercially certificated flight instructors were fatally injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan had been filed for the instructional flight being conducted under Title 14 CFR Part 91. The flight originated at Provo approximately 1600. According to the operator, 19.0 gallons of 100-LL fuel were used to fill the airplane's main fuel tanks to capacity (50 gallons each tank, 100 gallons total useable) at the end of the day before the accident. The auxiliary fuel tanks had been inoperative for some time, and the fuel gauges and fuel filler caps had been placarded accordingly. The next day, the airplane flew once before the accident flight. The instructor on that flight said he visually "checked the main tanks and confirmed that the airplane was topped off with fuel." He did not check the auxiliary fuel tanks. The flight departed shortly after 1400. According to the flight instructor, he and his student and an observer (the observer was also the observer on the accident flight) flew for 1.6 hours, and performed a simulated right engine failure and subsequent rejected takeoff, several other simulated engine failures, and a complete right engine shutdown. They also made three takeoffs and landings. The instructor said that at the conclusion of the flight, he verifie
Probable cause
failure of the student to maintain aircraft control. Contributing factors were the instructor's inattention to the fuel supply, fuel exhaustion, an inadvertent stall/spin during the turn from base leg to final approach. and the instructor's inadequate supervision of the flight.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
