- Date
- March 13, 1986, 20:07 local (Mar 14, 1986, 02:07 UTC)
- Place
- Silver City, NM
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N9867FCessna 401
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860313008189A
- Case key
- 16812
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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 2 com rated plts were returning from a part 135 flt at night. The fuel tanks were inadvertently not switched from mains to aux. Fuel starvation occurred when acft was at low altitude. Insufficient altitude remained to restart the engines. Acft impacted ground. A post accident fire erupted destroying the acft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9867F
- Reported as
- Cessna 401
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 401
- Airframe hours
- 5,990
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-E, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- On-Ground
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Flying A Flight Service, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 18, 1986 · 45 hours before
- Departed
- SDL · Scottsdale, AZ
- Destination
- 94E · Silver City, NM
- Airport
- 94E · Whiskey Creek, runway 35, 3,700 × 50 ft, asphalt
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
- 62
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 16,400 total · 1,800 in this make and model · 171 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 270° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N9867F · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.