- Date
- May 2, 1988, 08:40 local (13:40 UTC)
- Place
- Centerville, MS
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N7353RBeech 58
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 13, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880502012289A
- Case key
- 32176
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of engine power(total) - nonmechanical
Fluid,fuel - exhaustionCause
Preflight planning/preparation - inadequateCause
Refueling - not obtainedFactor
Engine instruments,fuel quantity gage - false indicationFactor
Operation with known deficiencies in equipment - performedCause
Forced landing
Gear collapsed
Terrain condition - rough/uneven
Landing gear,main gear - overload
Analysis
The pilot stated that he thought the aircraft had been refueled the previous evening. During preflight he did not observe any fuel in the aircraft fuel tanks. He further stated that the aircraft fuel quantity guages had been unreliable. In cruise flight both engines failed due to fuel exhaustion and he executed a forced landing to a plowed field.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7353R
- Reported as
- Beech 58
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TH486
- Airframe hours
- 2,602
- Engine
- Continental IO-520C, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Business · Part 91
- Registered owner
- T.C. Sales Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 9, 1987 · 15 hours before
- Departed
- 29J · Rock Hill, SC
- Destination
- TUP · Tupelo, MS
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 63
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 20,000 total · 500 in this make and model · 20,000 as pilot in command · 80 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TUP, 27 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.