- Date
- April 29, 1990, 17:50 local (Apr 30, 1990, 00:50 UTC)
- Place
- Bullhead City, AZ
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N42748Cessna 182L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900429012969A
- Case key
- 26789
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Probable cause
The pilot's preflight planning/preparation and fuel calculations were poor.
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 airplane sustained a total loss of power and the plt landed on a highway. The landing was successful but during the landing rollout the pilot executed an evasive maneuver to avoid a collision with a truck and subsequently collided with a fence. The plt dismantled and removed the airplane before notifying the NTSB or the FAA. The plt claimed that the left wing fuel cap broke sometime in flt but failed to provide the safety board with the failed cap or photographic evidence. The plt's action indicated that he attempted to mitigate the accident when he purposely removed and dismantled the wreckage. The safety board believes the airplane sustained fuel exhaustion due to the pilot's poor preflt planning and preparation and his miscalculations of the airplane's fuel consumption.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N42748
- Reported as
- Cessna 182L
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Unregistered, doing business as Edward, Mark
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- L15 · Henderson, NV
- Destination
- P06
- Flight plan
- Unknown
- Airport
- P06 · Bullhead City
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
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 45 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- EED
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.