- Date
- June 10, 1988, 16:04 local (22:04 UTC)
- Place
- Denver, CO
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8827KCessna 404
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 19, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880610019839A
- Case key
- 17376
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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 plt was on a flt from greeley to Denver, Colorado to obtain minor maint on a cargo door. As the acft was being vectored on final apch, the plt rprtd that he believed the acft had fuel starvation. Subsequently, the acft was observedto make a complete roll & crash in a residential area. Only about 1.5 gal of fuel was found in the right wing tank. The left wing & fuel tank were destroyed, but no odor of fuel was noted on the ground around the left wing. Also, a lack of fuel was noted in the fuel lines. The acft had not been refueled after the previous flt. The plt that had flown the acft on a previous flt estimated there was 100 lbs of fuel remaining in each tank after his flt.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8827K
- Reported as
- Cessna 404
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4040424
- Airframe hours
- 3,486
- Engine
- Continental GTISO-520-M, 375 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Operator
- Air Today, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Chane Soon Phil
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · May 24, 1988 · 39 hours before
- Departed
- GXY · Greeley, CO
- Destination
- DEN
- Airport
- DEN · Stapelton Intl, runway 26L, 10,004 × 150 ft, concrete
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
- 47
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 1,400 total · 400 in this make and model · 1,200 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days · 33 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 16 knots
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DEN, 1 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.