- Date
- August 8, 1986, 17:49 local (21:49 UTC)
- Place
- Bowling Green, KY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N78261Temco GC-1B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860808038369A
- Case key
- 7166
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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
Plt reported that he failed to reposition the fuel selector from auxillary fuel tank to main fuel tank during the landing check. Engine quit due to fuel starvation on short final approach at too low an altitude for corrective action.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N78261
- Reported as
- Temco GC-1B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2261
- Airframe hours
- 2,086
- Engine
- Franklin 6A-350-C1, 220 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Robert S. Wickham
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 8, 1986 · 14 hours before
- Departed
- DNV · Danville, IL
- Destination
- CSV · Crossville, TN
- Airport
- BWG · Bowling Green-Warren Co., runway 30, 3,956 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 66
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,392 total · 574 in this make and model · 1,233 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 13 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BWG
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.