- Date
- July 27, 1993, 16:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Pickett, WI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- CFNVMMurphy Rebel
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 10, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 15764
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate preflight planning which resulted in fuel exhaustion. The lack of suitable terrain for a forced landing was a factor in the accident.
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 flight departed alma, Michigan at 1305 central daylight time with 30 gallons of fuel. At 1645 the airplane experienced a total power loss and a forced landing was performed in rough terrain one mile west of Pickett, Wisconsin, approximately 15 miles short of the intended destination. No usable fuel was remaining in either fuel tank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- CFNVM
- Reported as
- Murphy Rebel
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 86
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 118 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Coghlin, Richard & Paul
- Registered owner
- Coghlin, Richard & Paul
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- AMN · Alma, MI
- Destination
- OSH · Oshkosh, WI
- Flight plan
- VFR
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 39
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 120 total · 25 in this make and model · 120 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 15,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OSH, 15 nm away