- Date
- February 9, 1985, 22:10 local (Feb 10, 1985, 04:10 UTC)
- Place
- New Albany, MS
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N6088SBeech A36
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850209002879A
- Case key
- 6743
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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
PIC had 1/2 hour check-out in A-36 but over 3900 total flight hours. His 14 hours in this acft was cross country flying. He stated that the fuel was kept evenly didtributed by switching the fuel selector between tanks during the nearly three hour flight. The pic/cfi commented that when the engine quit it sounded like fuel starvation. Post crash examination of the undamaged fuel system and instrument panel showed 15 gallons of fuel in the right tank, 0 in the left, fuel selector on the right tank, & the auxiliary fuel boost pump off-pilot's handbook calls for auxiliary pump 'on' with loss of engine power during flight.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6088S
- Reported as
- Beech A36
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- E-785
- Airframe hours
- 3,464
- Engine
- Continental IO 520-BA10, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Operator
- Metro Flying Club
- Registered owner
- Simaitis, Sanford B. Debra L.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 7, 1984
- Departed
- MGM · Montgomery, AL
- Destination
- OLV · Olive Branch, MS
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
- 40
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,960 total · 14 in this make and model · 3,751 as pilot in command · 75 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Visibility
- 192 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N6088S · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.