- Date
- June 25, 1983, 13:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Banning, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N1860Smith-Poston BI-PLANE
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830625026689A
- Case key
- 23769
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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 acft collided with a ditch during a forced landing after the engine quit. The plt said he ran out of gas. He said the fuel gauges were inoperative but he was told the acft would operate 2 and 1/2 hours on a tank of fuel. The acft engine stopped after 1 hour and 50 minutes of operation according to the plt.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1860
- Reported as
- Smith-Poston BI-PLANE
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- RP003
- Airframe hours
- 412
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A3B, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Harve W. Davis
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 11, 1983 · 3 hours before
- Departed
- L45 · Bakersfield, CA
- Destination
- PSP · Palm Springs, 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
- 42
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Center
- Flight hours
- 1,387 total · 3 in this make and model · 1,214 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 17 knots, gusting 20
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.