- Date
- May 20, 1986, 16:45 local (22:45 UTC)
- Place
- Glen Canyon, UT
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N22796Cessna 150-H
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860520037669A
- Case key
- 16822
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
While in a descent 20 miles before reaching the destination, the acft engine quit due to fuel exhaustion. The plt initiated an emergency forced landing to a dry stream bed in rough desert terrain. After touchdown, the acft impacted an embankment and flipped into an inverted position. The wreckage was located by aerial search. The uninjured plt and seriously injured pax were transported to a hospital in page, Arizona by ground ambulance.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N22796
- Reported as
- Cessna 150-H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15068522
- Airframe hours
- 3,415
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Ralph H. Carter
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 28, 1985 · 31 hours before
- Departed
- U77 · Spanish Fork, UT
- Destination
- PGA · Page, AZ
- Flight plan
- VFR
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 34
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 105 total · 38 in this make and model · 65 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 22 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CDC, 69 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.