- Date
- January 4, 1987, 12:14 local (18:14 UTC)
- Place
- Lufkin, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N66590Bellanca 17-30
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 22315
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of engine power(total) - nonmechanical
Fluid,fuel - starvationFactor
In-flight planning/decision - poorCause
Fuel system,pump - not engagedCause
Fuel consumption calculations - poorFactor
Emergency procedure - not performedFactor
Forced landing
In flight collision with object
Object - tree(s)Factor
Analysis
A private pilot substantially damaged his aircraft while attempting an emergency landing following a engine failure due to fuel exhaustion in the right main tank. The pilot switched to a full tank but failed to use the fuel boost pump during the attempted restart.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N66590
- Reported as
- Bellanca 17-30
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 30030
- Airframe hours
- 1,760
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-D, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Leon E.Flory
- Registered owner
- Leon E. Flory
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- BRO · Brownsville, TX
- Destination
- LFK · Lufkin, TX
- Airport
- LFK · Lufkin
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 44
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,529 total · 38 in this make and model · 1,332 as pilot in command · 36 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,700 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LFK, 8 nm away