19881027063139I

Incident

FAA incident report · Piper PA-28-151 · Lebanon, TN · October 27, 1988

Date
October 27, 1988 · 20:45 local
Place
Lebanon, TN
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N277RM
Reported as
Piper PA28151
Reported engine
Lycoming O320E3D
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,112 total331 in this make and model59 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Fuel exhaustion. Emergency landing on a road. Miscalculated head winds and waited too long before refueling.

As the FAA filed it

FUEL EXHAUSTION. EMERGENCY LANDING ON A ROAD. MISCALCULATED HEAD WINDS AND WAITED TOO LONG BEFORE REFUELING.