- Date
- January 11, 1990, 20:00 local (Jan 12, 1990, 03:00 UTC)
- Place
- Provo, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N5693UPiper PA-28-140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report September 10, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900111035599A
- Case key
- 17879
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Probable cause
Fuel starvation due to pilot misjudgement of fuel requirements for the trip and a failure to refuel the airplane en route.
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 pilot said that while on approach to rwy 13, the engine ran out of fuel and quit. He said he underestimated the amount of fuel required for the trip, and that the plane used more fuel than the operators manual predicted. A post-accident engine run by an FAA inspector resulted in a normal run.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5693U
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-26492
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Svenn Eric Jacobsen
- Departed
- RHV · San Jose, CA
- Destination
- PVU · Provo, UT
- Airport
- PVU · Provo, runway 13, 7,091 × 150 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
- 23
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 776 total · 455 in this make and model · 703 as pilot in command · 31 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
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 N5693U · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.