- Date
- July 28, 1989, 08:59 local (13:59 UTC)
- Place
- Waukesha, WI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N412RCCabrinha/Free Spirit 412
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 25, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890728025709A
- Case key
- 14211
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Probable cause
The plt became lost/disoriented and allowed fuel exhaustion to occur before accomplishing remedial action. Factors related to the accident were: the adverse environmental conditions and the road sign and vehicles in the emergency landing area.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N412RC
- Reported as
- Cabrinha/Free Spirit 412
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 85412001
- Airframe hours
- 142
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Richard E. Cabrinha, doing business as Cabrinha Aircraft Corporation
- Registered owner
- Richard E Cabrinha
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 23, 1989 · 12 hours before
- Departed
- SFD · Sioux Falls, SD
- Destination
- OSH · Oshkosh, WI
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
- 55
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 750 total · 100 in this make and model · 750 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 10 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,400 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- UES, 3 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.