- Date
- April 7, 1991, 19:19 local (Apr 8, 1991, 02:19 UTC)
- Place
- North Hollywood, CA
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9113XPiper PA 46
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910407009199A
- Case key
- 27164
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's poor preflight planning, inadequate fuel consumption calculations which resulted in a loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion, and the pilot-in-command's failure to follow air traffic control verbal instructions which would have guided him to a probable safe landing at an airport.
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
A Piper pa 46-310P loss engine power and collided with a telephone pole during the forced landing. The pilot contacted the TRACON and informed the facility he had a partial power loss. The airplane was about two miles east of the airport at about 3,500 feet MSL heading in a southwesterly direction. The TRACON instructed the pilot to turn 150 degrees for radar vectors to runway 33. The pilot did not turn to the 150 degree heading, but continued on a southwesterly course. The airplane flew past the approach ends of two runways. The airplane continued westbound and crashed 2.5 miles west of the airport. The pilot indicated the airplane had 300 pounds (about 50 gallons) of fuel on board at takeoff. The pilot operating handbook for the Piper pa 34-310P is about 16 gallons per hour. The duration of the flight was about one hour. There was no evidence of fuel in the airplane's fuel system or any evidence of fuel spillage from either of the wings after the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9113X
- Reported as
- Piper PA 46
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 4608044
- Engine
- Continental TSIO 520BEI, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Pask Hover, Igor
- Registered owner
- Pask Hover, Igor
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 8, 1991
- Departed
- LAS · Las Vegas, NV
- Destination
- SMO · Santa Monica, CA
- Airport
- BUR · Burbank, runway 33, 6,885 × 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
- 36
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 398 total · 45 in this make and model · 398 as pilot in command · 46 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 340° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 34 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BUR, 2 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.