ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 225207
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| Date: | Friday 17 May 2019 |
| Time: | 16:37 |
| Type: |  Cessna T210N Turbo Centurion II |
| Owner/operator: | Vintage Aeroplane Collection #2 INC |
| Registration: | N6973N |
| MSN: | 21063182 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1979 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Adige river, Settimo -
 Italy
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Verona/Boscomantico (LIPN) |
| Investigating agency: | ANSV |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
A Cessna T210N Turbo Centurion II plane ditched into a river. Both occupants were injured and were taken to a hospital.
Cause:
The accident, which ended with the ditching into the Adige River, was induced by the sudden shutdown of the aircraft's engine.
In light of the available evidence, the safety investigation was unable to determine, with incontrovertible certainty, the causes of the aforementioned shutdown, although the same evidence leads to the assumption that fuel starvation occurred. In this hypothesis, the following factors would have contributed to the accident:
- inadequate flight planning on the part of the PIC (the pilot seated on the left), including with regard to the 18 aspects related to fuel control before embarking on the flight;
- inadequate coordination between the two pilots present on board, who did not sufficiently compare the actual amount existing in the tanks before embarking on the flight;
- inadequate monitoring carried out by the pilot seated on the right, who, regardless of the type of flight and the definition of roles, had in any case more than enough knowledge and experience to prevent fuel starvation;
- a cognitive gap, which prevented the pilot seated on the right from applying the engine failure procedure on time at the onset of the emergency, particularly with regard to the selection of the tank containing, probably, the most fuel; such a situation would have occurred in a particularly complex context, coinciding with a peak workload due to the sudden change of one's role on board (from pilot monitoring the flight to pilot handling the emergency) and the consequent need to carry out, in a very short time considering the altitude and position of the aircraft, the (unsuccessful) attempt to restart the engine and the preparation of the aircraft for ditching.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://theworldnews.net/it-news/verona-ultraleggero-precipita-nell-adige-2-feriti
http://www.ansv.it/It/detail_Relazioni.asp?ID=2169
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 5 June 2007 | N6973N | Private | 0 | Bakersfield, California |  |
sub |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 18-May-2019 07:33 | gerard57 | Added |
| 18-May-2019 08:17 | Anon. | Updated [Time, Registration, Departure airport, Source] |
| 18-May-2019 08:18 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Source] |
| 18-May-2019 08:44 | RobertMB | Updated [Operator, Departure airport] |
| 18-May-2019 09:51 | RobertMB | Updated [Narrative] |
| 13-May-2022 17:26 | harro | Updated [Time, Narrative, Accident report] |
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