# Incident 20010725017389I: Cessna 172C, Fresno, CA, July 25, 2001

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: July 25, 2001, 13:05 local time
- Place: Fresno, CA
- Phase of flight: Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 36.7477° N, 119.7724° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Fresno, CA, within about 6 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=36.7477&lon=-119.7724&mi=10
- Aircraft: N6988X, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N6988X) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 172B (registry code 2072406, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172b) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Continental 0-300 series (registry code 17022, https://openairdocs.org/engine/continental-0-300-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172C
- People aboard: 4
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot flight hours: 1,900 total, 175 in this make and model, 7 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20010725017389I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) ON 07-25-2001, MR. FRAME, A SINGLE ENGINE COMMERCIAL PILOT, ACTING AS PILOT IN COMMAND, DEPARTED THE SIERRA SKY PARK AIRPORT (Q60), FRESNO, CA, AT APPROXIMATELY 10:45 HOURS, WITH THREE PASSENGERS ON BOARD, FOR THE WOODLAKE AIRPORT (042), WOODLAKE, CA, IN N688X, A CESSNA 172 AIRCRAFT. THEY ARRIVED AT 042 AT ABOUT 11:30 HOURS AND DEPARTED THAT LOCAITON AROUND 12:45 HOURS ON A RETURN ENROUTE BACK TO Q60.  AT APPROXIMATELY 13:05 HOURS, THE AIRCRAFT ENGINE QUIT DUE TO FUEL EXHAUSTION.  MR. FRAME HAD ATTEMPTED TO USE THE AIRCRAFT FUEL PRIMER TO KEEP THE ENGINE GOING AND MAKE IT INTO THE FRESNO-CHANDLER DOWNTOWN AIRPORT (FCH), FRESNO, CA.  ONCE THE ENGINE QUIT, MR. FRAME EXECUTED AN OFF AIRPORT EMERGENCY LANDING INTO AN OPEN FIELD SOME THREE AND ONE-HALF MILES SOUTHEAST OF FCH.  THE AIRCRAFT WAS NOT DAMAGED AND NEITHER THE PILOT NOR HIS PASSENGERS SUFFERED ANY INJURIES.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

---
OpenAirDocs.org is an independent research project of [Contrail Labs](https://contraillabs.com/). It is not affiliated with the FAA or the NTSB. Source documents are U.S. government works in the public domain.