- Date
- February 20, 1988, 12:42 local (19:42 UTC)
- Place
- Durango, CO
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9848MCessna TU-206
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880220003119A
- Case key
- 17457
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Analysis
While on a cross country flight the plt ran short of fuel and altered course to another airport. The pilot said the acft engine failed short of the new destination due to fuel exhaustion. The plt performed an emergency landing in an open field and the acft sustained substantial damage during the landing.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9848M
- Reported as
- Cessna TU-206
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U20604575
- Airframe hours
- 1,052
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-M, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Paul D. Dempsey
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 2, 1987 · 31 hours before
- Departed
- TUS · Tucson, AZ
- Destination
- TEX · Telluride, 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
- 40
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 189 total · 86 in this make and model · 99 as pilot in command · 31 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 75 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DRO, 5 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.