- Date
- July 29, 1991, 18:13 local (23:13 UTC)
- Place
- Franklin, KY
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N6521RGordorn Price Ultimate 10-300
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Not reported
- Status
- Completed · report June 10, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910729030509A
- Case key
- 11619
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Probable cause
Delay in switching fuel tanks which resulted in fuel exhaustion and loss of engine power.
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 pilot was en route and as he was switching fuel tanks, the engine lost power. The pilot made a forced landing in field where the airplane was substantially damaged. The investigation did not disclose evidence of mechanical malfunction. There was four gallons of fuel in the top wing fuel tank and none in the forward and aft fuselage tanks.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6521R
- Reported as
- Gordorn Price Ultimate 10-300 (ULTIMATE 1)
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 300-002
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-540, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Bill Baird Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Bill Baird Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 22, 1990 · 53 hours before
- Departed
- I05 · Sturgis, KY
- Destination
- CSV · Crossville, TN
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
- 51
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 12,000 total · 50 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Not reported
- Wind
- 20° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BWG, 999 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.