- Date
- September 26, 1987, 15:35 local (22:35 UTC)
- Place
- San Ramon, CA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N8711XCessna 182D
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 29, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870926056649A
- Case key
- 25698
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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
After telling the lineman at calexico, CA to fill the tanks, the plt walked away from the acft to clear customs. When he returned, he loaded his passengers into the acft and departed the arpt. After flying 3 and 1/2 hours the engine stopped and the acft was force landed onto a golf course. The acft came to rest at the bottom of a hill against a barbed wire fence. Examination of the fuel tanks revealed they were both empty.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8711X
- Reported as
- Cessna 182D
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18253111
- Airframe hours
- 3,677
- Engine
- Continental O-470-L, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Gruber, Thomas I.
- Registered owner
- Thomas I Gruber
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 1, 1986 · 53 hours before
- Departed
- CXL · Calexico, CA
- Destination
- 069 · Petaluma, 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
- 49
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,003 total · 500 in this make and model · 855 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days · 24 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 45° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °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.