- Date
- June 24, 1990, 15:25 local (19:25 UTC)
- Place
- West Milford, NJ
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N3674QBeech BE-23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 2, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900624021949A
- Case key
- 36668
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot in command to attain the proper touchdown point while making a forced landing following loss of engine power 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
The pilot planned on a 4 hour crosscountry flight with 60 gallons of fuel. After 2 hours of flight, he remained overnight and upon departure did not visually check the fuel tanks prior to departure. After less than 4 hours of flight he lost power in the taffic pattern, tried to slip to the runway and just above the runway, the engine surged for a few seconds and then quit again. He landed long and ran off the departure end of the runway into trees.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3674Q
- Reported as
- Beech BE-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- MA265
- Airframe hours
- 2,350
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A2B, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Raymond Fagamo
- Registered owner
- Raymond F Fagnano, Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 5, 1989
- Departed
- MPV · Montpelier, VT
- Airport
- 4N1 · Greenwood Lake, runway 2, 2,306 × 50 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
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 300 total · 56 in this make and model · 20 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- 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 N3674Q · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.