Two pilots in a cessna T210 were forced to conduct a gear down off field emergency landing when they...

Attributes
ACN	1126750
Time
Date	201310
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.ARTCC
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Dusk
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Cessna 210 Centurion / Turbo Centurion 210C 210D
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Cruise
Flight Plan	VFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Engine
Person 1
Function	Pilot Not Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 200 Flight Crew Total 17500 Flight Crew Type 35
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Illness Ground Event / Encounter Other / Unknown

Narrative:

I was out for the afternoon with the aircraft owner. On board were my son and his two grandsons. We had just refueled and topped off our fuel tanks after attending a 'fly-in.' we were in cruise flight heading northbound paralleling the state highway when we experienced a loss of engine power. I turned to the aircraft owner and asked what happened and he said: 'I want to see if we can glide to 'the reservoir.' I thought he was joking because the reservoir was at least 8 miles away and we were only 2;000 ft AGL at the most. It was after a moment or two that I realized he was not thinking clearly and; so I began basic emergency procedures.I noticed that he had moved the mixture to 'cut off' instead of simply retarding the throttle. I first pushed the mixture to full rich; prop forward; and then attempted this restart; but the engine was unresponsive to our efforts. Because of the time utilized in attempting a restart and the pending emergency landing we had insufficient time to complete an emergency checklist. Unable to reach the hard surface road we elected to land parallel to the highway as much as possible. We extended the landing gear prior to touchdown and landed nose first followed by the main gear. The impact was sufficiently hard to collapse all three gears.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Two pilots in a Cessna T210 were forced to conduct a gear down off field emergency landing when they experienced sudden engine failure at about 2;000 FT AGL.

Narrative: I was out for the afternoon with the aircraft owner. On board were my son and his two grandsons. We had just refueled and topped off our fuel tanks after attending a 'fly-in.' We were in cruise flight heading northbound paralleling the state highway when we experienced a loss of engine power. I turned to the aircraft owner and asked what happened and he said: 'I want to see if we can glide to 'the reservoir.' I thought he was joking because the reservoir was at least 8 miles away and we were only 2;000 FT AGL at the most. It was after a moment or two that I realized he was not thinking clearly and; so I began basic emergency procedures.I noticed that he had moved the mixture to 'cut off' instead of simply retarding the throttle. I first pushed the mixture to full rich; prop forward; and then attempted this restart; but the engine was unresponsive to our efforts. Because of the time utilized in attempting a restart and the pending emergency landing we had insufficient time to complete an Emergency Checklist. Unable to reach the hard surface road we elected to land parallel to the highway as much as possible. We extended the landing gear prior to touchdown and landed nose first followed by the main gear. The impact was sufficiently hard to collapse all three gears.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of July 2013 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Two pilots in a cessna T210 were forced to conduct a gear down off field emergency landing when they experienced sudden engine failure at about 2;000 ft AGL.