- Date
- March 2, 1988, 11:15 local (18:15 UTC)
- Place
- Riverton, UT
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N8073VCessna 188
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 13, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880302006349A
- Case key
- 17333
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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
This ag operator was fertilizing a field. He was making repetative trips which took about 10 min each. The plt was aware that the fuel gauges were inaccurate, reading less fuel than was actually onboard. While making a swath run the eng lost pwr and the acft stalled during the forced landing. Post accident examination revealed that there was no fuel in either the acft or eng fuel systems and no evidence of fuel spillage around the wreckage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8073V
- Reported as
- Cessna 188
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 188-0323
- Airframe hours
- 5,318
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D31, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Aerial application · Part 137
- Registered owner
- David S. Sheppard
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 21, 1987 · 28 hours before
- Departed
- U42 · Salt Lake City, UT
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
- 32
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 2,619 total · 1,284 in this make and model · 2,516 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,900 ft broken
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CDC, 15 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.
Other investigations on N8073V · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.