- Date
- October 19, 1991, 10:55 local (15:55 UTC)
- Place
- Tupelo, MS
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N32652Rockwell 685
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 10, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19911019047029A
- Case key
- 33022
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Probable cause
The pilot in commands failure to insure that adequate fuel was placed on the aircraft for the flight resulting in loss of power in both engines due to fuel exhaustion.
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
Pilot stated aircraft fuel quantity gauges had not been operating properly. The last time the aircraft was in for repair of the fuel gauges, 12 flight hours before the accident, he believed 230 gallons of fuel was in the aircraft. Since that time he calculated his fuel quantity by fuel added and fuel burn estimates. While on approach to Tupelo both engines quit and a forced landing was made in a field. After the accident less than one gallon of fuel was found in the aircraft.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N32652
- Reported as
- Rockwell 685
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 12029
- Airframe hours
- 1,755
- Engine
- Continental GTSIO-520-K, 435 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Bill T. Fields
- Registered owner
- Bill T. Fields
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 18, 1991 · 40 hours before
- Departed
- GSO · Greensboro, NC
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Helicopter
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 7,410 total · 162 in this make and model · 6,243 as pilot in command · 121 in the last 90 days · 49 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TUP, 4 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.