- Date
- July 9, 1990, 14:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- Big Bear, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4796MBeech V35B
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 23, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900709025299A
- Case key
- 26862
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Probable cause
The fuel starvation due to the pilot's inadvertent selection of an empty fuel tank.
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 pilot reported he was on down wind and switched fuel tanks from the left tip of the left main. The engine sputtered and then quit. The pilot said he stretched the glide and touched down hard on the end of the runway. The aircraft was examined by an aircraft maintenace facility at the airport. According to their report of the examination, no fuel was found in the fuel line from the firewall to the fuel pump, or from the fuel pump to the metering unit.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4796M
- Reported as
- Beech V35B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D10133
- Engine
- Continental IO-520, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Anthony G. Peich
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- CNO · Chino, CA
- Destination
- L35
- Airport
- L35 · Big Bear, runway 25, 5,850 × 75 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
- 66
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Flight hours
- 3,000 total · 1,000 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.