- Date
- February 14, 1988, 10:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Crowley, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N3180BCessna 170B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 28, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880214002419A
- Case key
- 22614
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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.
Analysis
The engine stopped as a result of fuel starvation, due to a large amount of contamination throughout the fuel system. The source of the contamination and the length of time it had been in the system was not determined. The pilot was not in gliding distance of an airport and made a forced landing in a farm field. The plt did not file an accident report.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3180B
- Reported as
- Cessna 170B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 25422
- Airframe hours
- 2,069
- Engine
- Continental C-145-2, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Gene Ratliff
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 29, 1987 · 27 hours before
- Departed
- WEA · Weatherford, TX
- Destination
- F72 · Ft. Worth, TX
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
- 62
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,650 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 36 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FTW, 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.