- Date
- October 7, 1990, 10:40 local (15:40 UTC)
- Place
- Morganfield, KY
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N69900Cessna 421B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 6, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901007044369A
- Case key
- 11644
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Probable cause
Lost of power of both engines due to the pilot's mismanagement of the fuel system.
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 acft was at 22,000 ft when the left engine lost power. Shortly afterwards, the right engine lost power. The pilot did not try to restart the engines. He unsuccessfully tried to glide to a nearby airport and landed in a cornfield. The examination of the acft revealed about one gallon of fuel total in the right tanks and about 85 gallons of fuel total in the left tanks. Examination of the engines did not disclose evidence of mechanical malfunction.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N69900
- Reported as
- Cessna 421B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 421B-0532
- Airframe hours
- 4,323
- Engine
- Continental GTSIO-520-H2, 375 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Executive/Corporate · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Chimera Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 14, 1990 · 100 hours before
- Departed
- JWN · Nashville, TN
- Destination
- DSM · Des Moine, IA
- 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
- 42
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,765 total · 110 in this make and model · 1,624 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,300 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- EVV
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.