- Date
- October 23, 1986, 13:03 local (18:03 UTC)
- Place
- Chicago, IL
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 2 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N7305RBeech 58
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19861023050059A
- Case key
- 13617
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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
The pilot departed home base with an undetermined amount of available fuel, after being advised by the lineman/refueler of the uncertainty of the amount of fuel onboard. The pilot assumed the aircraft had been refueled the previous evening and departed on this flight. The aircraft had not been refueled the previous evening. Fuel exhaustion was experienced five miles short of the pilots intended destination airport.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7305R
- Reported as
- Beech 58
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH476
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-C, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Part 135
- Registered owner
- Central Missouri Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 24, 1986 · 105 hours before
- Departed
- JEF · Jefferson City, MO
- Destination
- MDW · Chicago, IL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- MDW · Midway
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 22
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,511 total · 77 in this make and model · 1,359 as pilot in command · 91 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,300 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DMW, 4 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.