19891025055539I

Incident

FAA incident report · Mooney M20C · Palo Alto, CA · October 25, 1989

Date
October 25, 1989 · 18:18 local
Place
Palo Alto, CA
Airport
Palo Alto Airport-Santa Clara Cou
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Aircraft
N2564W
Reported as
Mooney M20C
People aboard
2
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
650 total430 in this make and model90 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 starvation. Landed short of runway. To be reexamined on flight planning and fuel management.

As the FAA filed it

FUEL STARVATION. LANDED SHORT OF RUNWAY. TO BE REEXAMINED ON FLIGHT PLANNING AND FUEL MANAGEMENT.