- Date
- July 30, 2015, 02:00 local (06:00 UTC)
- Place
- Tallahassee, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N93582Bellanca 17 30A
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Collision during takeoff/land
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 2015
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA Tampa FSDO
- FAA report
- 20150730017019A
- Case key
- 91697
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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Probable cause
The pilot's improper fuel planning, which resulted in fuel exhaustion and a forced landing on a road where the left wing impacted vegetation and sustained substantial damage.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that while on a cross county flight, "it appears that I ran out of fuel and was forced to land on a road nearby and adjacent to the approach end of an active runway." During the landing roll, the left wing impacted a bush, and the airplane departed the road to the left into a ditch. The left wing sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported there were no pre-impact mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airframe or engine that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that while on a cross county flight, "it appears that I ran out of fuel and was forced to land on a road nearby and adjacent to the approach end of an active runway." During the landing roll, the left wing impacted a bush, and the airplane departed the road to the left into a ditch. The left wing sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported there were no pre-impact mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airframe or engine that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N93582
- Reported as
- Bellanca 17 30A (A)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 74-30639
- Built
- 1973
- Airframe hours
- 3,026
- Engine
- Continental IO-520K, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Rush Inc
- Registered owner
- Rush Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 28, 2014
- Departed
- F44 · Athens, TX
- Destination
- 2J9 · Quincy, FL
- Airport
- TLH · Tallahassee Intl
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Handheld GPS, Auto-pilot
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
- 58
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 17, 2013
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 736 total · 8 in this make and model · 736 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 250° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.95 inHg
- Observed at
- KTLH, 1 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 15, 2015, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.6 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.