- Date
- May 27, 1991, 14:45 local (21:45 UTC)
- Place
- Santa Clarita, CA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N736MRCessna R172K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 27, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910527065559A
- Case key
- 27218
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Probable cause
Fuel exhaustion due to the failure of the pilot to properly perform preflight planning and to ensure that an adequate fuel supply existed for the flight.
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
According to the operator, the pilot left van nuys on the afternoon of may 24, 1991, enroute to lake havasu for the weekend. At the time the pilot accepted the aircraft, the fuel level was something less than full. At lake havasu, the pilot loaded 11.8 gallons of fuel on board the aircraft. Examination of the aircraft at the accident site by FAA personnel from the van nuys, California, flight standards district office revealed that only residual fuel was left in the fuel tanks.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N736MR
- Reported as
- Cessna R172K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- R1722638
- Engine
- Continental IO-360-K, 195 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- San Val Flying Service
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- LHU · Lake Havasu, AZ
- Destination
- VNY · Van Nuys, 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
- 30
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 150 total · 4 in this make and model · 17 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 5 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N736MR · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.