- Date
- April 6, 1985, 15:35 local (23:35 UTC)
- Place
- Las Vegas, NV
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N6125NBeech BE-23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850406013969A
- Case key
- 40136
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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
A forced landing was made due to fuel exhaustion. A landing was made short of the runway onto rough terrain during which time the gear collapsed. The plt's route of flight wasvery close to airport's having fuel available, but the plt elected to continue to his destination airport.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6125N
- Reported as
- Beech BE-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M-1210
- Airframe hours
- 1,317
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A2G, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Randolph F. Geck
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 1, 1984
- Departed
- WJF · Lancaster, CA
- Destination
- L15 · Las Vegas, NV
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- L15 · Henderson Sky Harbor, runway 36, 5,000 × 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
- Age
- 37
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 532 total · 49 in this make and model · 250 as pilot in command · 19 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LAS, 3 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.