- Date
- April 23, 1988, 10:28 local (18:28 UTC)
- Place
- Kenai, AK
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N86128Cessna 337D
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 25, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19880423010199A
- Case key
- 5001
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The private pilot was practicing simulated instrument flight with his flight instructor in their mutually-owned airplane, when both engines quit within minutes of each other due to fuel exhaustion. The airplane struck trees in the ensuing emergency descent prior to reaching the selected landing area and was substantially damaged. Neither of the pilots were injured. The flight instructor had conducted the preflight inspection, and had visually inspected the fuel tanks prior to the start of the flight, and although the tanks were less than full, he felt that a sufficient quantity remained for the intended flight. Both pilots said that the fuel gauges indicated one-quarter full when the engines stopped.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N86128
- Reported as
- Cessna 337D
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 3371089
- Airframe hours
- 1,662
- Engine
- Continental IO-360-C, 210 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Lee, Gary E.
- Registered owner
- Lee, Gary E
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 9, 1987 · 43 hours before
- Departed
- MRI · Anchorage, AK
- Airport
- 8AK8 · Swanson River
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 36
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 318 total · 158 in this make and model · 281 as pilot in command · 26 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 41 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ENA, 17 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.