- Date
- July 24, 1988, 11:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lawrence, KS
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N6347QMooney M20-F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 8, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880724046899A
- Case key
- 34609
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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 pilot said the engine quit due to fuel exhaustion during a personal cross country flight. He said he tried to glide to his final destination airport, but made an emergency ldg in a farm field about 2 miles short of the airport.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6347Q
- Reported as
- Mooney M20-F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 607430
- Airframe hours
- 3,000
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Roderick W. Urish
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 10, 1988 · 150 hours before
- Departed
- 3LC · Lincoln, IL
- Airport
- LWC · Lawrence, runway 19, 3,900 × 75 ft, dirt
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
- 44
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,040 total · 860 in this make and model · 64 in the last 90 days · 21 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.