- Date
- October 1, 1983, 11:50 local (18:50 UTC)
- Place
- Salinas, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8426XCessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19831001052859A
- Case key
- 24049
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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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 nosed over during a forced landing after the engine quit on an inital approach to land. The pilot had taken offfrom monterey CA at 1100 hours PDT to fly to Salinas CA with an estimated 4-5 gallons of fuel on board the acft. At 1150PDT the acft landed off the airport at Salinas. The pilot report stated that the acft was out of fuel. The reason the pilot gave for not refueling at monterey was the lack of 80 octane fuel. During the landing about 2 miles short of the arpt the acft nosed over in a soft muddy plowed field.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8426X
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 48926
- Airframe hours
- 3,100
- Engine
- Continental O-300-D, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Dennis F. Murry
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · December 29, 1982
- Departed
- MRY · Monterey, CA
- Destination
- SNS · Salinas, CA
- Airport
- SNS · Salinas, runway 31, 4,825 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 31
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,091 total · 461 in this make and model · 3,025 as pilot in command · 66 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 120° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SNS
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.