- Date
- November 7, 1982, 11:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- San Andreas, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N42JFPitts S1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 7, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821107057069A
- Case key
- 72473
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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 acft had been airborne about 2 hrs & consumed over 23 gals of fuel when the eng quit due to fuel exhaustion. The operator stated this was considerably more then the normal fuel consumption of about 8 gals/hr. During the emergency landing the acft struck a power line over a road. The acft then landed on the road & the left wing struck a fire hydrant. It then went through a barbed wire fence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N42JF
- Reported as
- Pitts S1
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 1
- Airframe hours
- 18
- Engine
- Unk/Nr, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Jerald R. Fisher
- Registered owner
- Jerald R. Fisher
- Departed
- C · San Andreas, CA
- Destination
- C · San Andreas, CA
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
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 18,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 135 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SCK, 31 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.
Other investigations on N42JF · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.