- Date
- August 21, 1982, 09:45 local (15:45 UTC)
- Place
- Palisade, CO
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N18906Beech C24R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 21, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820821039819A
- Case key
- 72142
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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
According to the pilot, the flight departed the arapahoe airport with the fuel tanks half full because of passenger load factor. As the aircraft approached within 45 miles of the destination airport, the pilot switched from the right fuel tank to the left fuel tank. A few minutes later, the engine began to quit and he switched back to the right tank. At this time, he noticed the fuel cap to the left wing fuel tank was missing. The aircraft ran out of fuel a short time later and the pilot attempted an emergency landing on interstate 70. During the landing the aircraft contacted a guard rail when the pilot swerved to avoid oncoming highway traffic.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N18906
- Reported as
- Beech C24R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MC522
- Airframe hours
- 165
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-36A-1B6, 2 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Wntell Associates
- Registered owner
- Wntell Associates
- Departed
- AI · Apa, CO
- Destination
- AI · Gjt, CO
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 20
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 521 total · 15 in this make and model · 361 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.