- Date
- March 18, 1992, 18:40 local (23:40 UTC)
- Place
- Hull, GA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N111TYLake LA-4-200
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report March 12, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA reports
- 19920318007969A19920318012949I
- Case key
- 8574
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate preflight and inflight planning, which resulted in fuel exhaustion, and his failure to obtain a proper touchdown point, which resulted in a long landing and collision with terrain.
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 commercial pilot was briefed on headwind conditions en route to his destination. He departed with 4 hours on fuel on board. As he approached his destination, he spotted a lake, and elected to land his amphibious airplane, due to a lack of fuel on board. En route to the lake, about 3 hours 55 minutes into the flight, the engine quit. He landed long, and the airplane was substantially damaged after colliding with terrain on the FAR shore. An inspection of the airplane revealed only 1/2 ounce of fuel in the fuel system.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N111TY
- Reported as
- Lake LA-4-200
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 468
- Airframe hours
- 1,383
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Timothy J. Young
- Registered owner
- James A. Young & Timothy Young
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 16, 1991 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- LEX · Lexington, KY
- Destination
- AHN · Athens, GA
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- 35
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 6,000 total · 350 in this make and model · 5,800 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 170° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 3 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,200 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- AHN, 7 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 2
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.