- Date
- March 26, 1987, 02:40 local (07:40 UTC)
- Place
- Gainesville, FL
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6143PPiper PA-24
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report July 5, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870326008789A
- Case key
- 31882
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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
The non instument rated private pilot filed an instrument flight plan for a 5 hour flight. The flight lasted 5 hours and 26 minutes when the pilot radioed controllers that he had run out of fuel and the engine failed. The aircraft crashed at the destination airport on a taxiway, and no fuel was found at the scene.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6143P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-24
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 24 1243
- Engine
- Lycoming O-540-1A5, 250 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert W. Bowen
- Registered owner
- Robert W. Bowen
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- MGY · Dayton, OH
- Destination
- GNV · Gainesville, FL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- GNV · Gainesville, runway 28, 7,500 × 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
- 45
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 600 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 2 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 800 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GNV
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 N6143P · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.