- Date
- July 14, 1989, 09:45 local (14:45 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Worth, TX
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9497SBeech 35-C33A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890714033159A
- Case key
- 22900
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Probable cause
Fuel exhaustion due to pilot mismanagement.
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 lost power approximately 22 miles short of the destination. The airplane hit a tree, soil bank, and overturned. The engine quit due to fuel exhaustion. The pilot indicated that he had not refueled since the airplane had completed an engine overhaul.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9497S
- Reported as
- Beech 35-C33A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CE13
- Airframe hours
- 2,780
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-B, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Vanhofwegen, Ronald Roy
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 13, 1989 · 2 hours before
- Departed
- AUS · Austin, TX
- Destination
- FTW · Fort 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
- 50
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 251 total · 169 in this make and model · 182 as pilot in command · 3 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FTW, 22 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.