- Date
- January 25, 1984, 16:00 local (Jan 26, 1984, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lake Casitas, CA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N300SFBeech 60
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840125002889A
- Case key
- 24151
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The plt was told by his company to deliver the recently sold acft to its new owner. During the flt, an intermediate stopwas made, but no fuel was added because the plt believed he had enough fuel. Fuel exhaustion occurred about 20 minutes after departure. Only a couple of ounces of fuel was found aboard the acft and no fuel stains or leaks were noted after the accident. According to the plt, the fuel gages indicated that there was aprx 50 gal on each side just before the engs started surging & losing power. During a forced landing in a muddy field, the acft nosed over as it came to rest ina ravine.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N300SF
- Reported as
- Beech 60
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- P313
- Airframe hours
- 1,475
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-541-E1C4, 380 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Steven F. Unvar-Hazy
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 19, 1984 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- SMX · Santa Maria, CA
- Destination
- VNY · Van Nuys, CA
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 46
- Certificates
- Commercial, Airline transport, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 5,800 total · 200 in this make and model · 5,748 as pilot in command · 194 in the last 90 days · 83 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 25 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.