C310, Hawarden UK, 2013

C310, Hawarden UK, 2013

Summary

On 15 November 2013, a privately operated Cessna 310 about to land at Hawarden crashed after power was lost from one engine and the experienced pilot appeared to have attempted to initiate a go around rather than land on the grass next to the runway. The Investigation found that both main fuel tanks were effectively empty after normal fuel use during the flight and since unused fuel remained in the auxiliary tanks, it was concluded that fuel starvation attributable to en route fuel system mismanagement had occurred. The other engine had been at full power but with fuel starvation imminent.

Description

On 15 November 2013, a privately operated Cessna 310Q (G-BXUY) about to land on runway 22 at Hawarden UK in day Visual Meteorological Conditions (VMC) after a flight from Lognes-Emerainville, France was seen to deviate to the left of the runway and appeared to become unstable before it pitched up, rolled to the left and impacted the ground in a steep nose-down attitude. The two occupants were seriously injured and both died shortly afterwards. The aircraft was destroyed.

The accident site (Reproduced from the Official Report)

Investigation

An Investigation was carried out by the UK AAIB. The aircraft was not fitted with an Flight Data Recorder (FDR) and was not required to be but a tablet computer which the pilot had been using for flight planning purposes was recovered from the wreckage and useful data was subsequently downloaded from it.

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