- Date
- May 27, 1987, 08:51 local (13:51 UTC)
- Place
- Wall, TX
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4314WBeech B-60
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 31, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870527017849A
- Case key
- 22247
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
Acft was destroyed during an attempted off airport emergency landing following a dual eng failure while leveling off at crz flt. Plt stated that left eng, then right eng surged and quit as he was leveling off at 9000' MSL. At the time of the eng failures the fuel totalizer was reading 60 gal, but the acft fuel gauges were reading empty. Plt broke out of ovc at 3500 MSL (about 1200' AGL) and was unable to find a suitable clear area to land before committing to an emergency landing in trees. Gear was down, flaps were up and neither eng was feathered at impact. Plt stated that he knew he was out of gas when both engs quit and that he did not attempt an air start.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4314W
- Reported as
- Beech B-60
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- P-264
- Airframe hours
- 2,645
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-541-E1C4, 380 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Kachina Energy, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 5, 1986 · 137 hours before
- Departed
- SJT · San Angelo, TX
- Destination
- SAT · San Antonio, TX
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- 42
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,553 total · 250 in this make and model · 14 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SJT, 20 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.