- Date
- April 20, 1983, 13:24 local (19:24 UTC)
- Place
- Gage, OK
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N599VKBeech 95-B55
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830420014659A
- Case key
- 20870
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The acft made a forced landing off arpt after the engine quit. The weather was VMC and no flt plan was filed. This was across-country flt from los angeles, CA to bolivar, MO with a fuel stop at Gage, OK. The flt crashed 900 ft short of the rwy at Gage, OK. Postcrash investigation by the arpt manager revealed an undetermined amount of fuel in the tanks. An on scene investigation by a Continental representative revealed no fuel in the spider valve and no drainable fuel in any of the fuel lines. The arpt manager visually checked the cockpit fuel gauges finding the left tank indicating empty and the right 1/8 full. The acft had flown about 5 hours and 24 minutes which would indicate fuel consumption of about 138 gallons of fuel. The acft holds 142 gallons of fuel, of which 136 is considered useable.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N599VK
- Reported as
- Beech 95-B55
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TC-1346
- Airframe hours
- 22,002
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-L, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- J. R. Machine Co.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · August 14, 1982
- Departed
- WHP · Los Angeles, CA
- Airport
- GAG · Gage Shattuck, runway 17, 5,435 × 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
- 52
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,549 total · 337 in this make and model · 1,474 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GAG, 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.