Cessna P210N accident near San Diego, CA
On November 16, 2023, a Cessna P210N (airplane) was involved in an accident near San Diego, CA. 1 person died. Damage to the aircraft: substantial.
- Date
- November 16, 2023
- Place
- San Diego, CA
- Aircraft
- Cessna P210N · Airplane
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Substantial
- Position
- 32.868°N, 117.239°W
- NTSB ID
- 20231116193391
Official records · WPR24FA037
- Public docket: reports, statements and exhibits from the investigation
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHTOn November 15, 2023, about 2120 Pacific standard time, a Cessna P210N airplane, N1400, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near San Diego, California. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The airline transport pilot had filed an instrument flight rules (IFR) flight plan for the accident flight that departed from Buchanan Field Airport (CCR), Concord, California, at a cruise altitude of 9,000 ft mean sea level (msl), with a planned destination of French Valley Airport (F70), Murrieta, California. The filed alternate was Mc Clellan-Palomar Airport (CRQ), Carlsbad, California. ADS-B data revealed that the airplane departed CCR about 1734 and climbed to an initial cruise altitude of about 9,000 ft msl. About 2030, after several cruise altitude changes, the airplane arrived near F70. According to air traffic controllers, due to poor weather conditions at F70, the pilot planned to divert to CRQ. However, there was an ILS outage at CRQ, so the pilot chose to divert to Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport (MYF), San Diego, California, to fly the ILS approach there. ADS-B data showed that about 2048, the airplane descended to below 3,000 ft msl and then climbed to about 5,000 ft msl. The Southern California Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) cleared the pilot for the ILS Runway 28R approach to MYF and then transferred him to the MYF common traffic advisory frequency. When the TRACON controller noticed the airplane was drifting off the localizer cours
Probable cause
A total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion. Contributing to the accident were the pilot’s inadequate flight and fuel planning and his decision to fly in night instrument meteorological conditions despite his lack of recent instrument 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.
