- Date
- May 16, 1985, 15:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Tacoma, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8300ZPiper PA-28-181
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 40157
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 - starvationFactor
Fuel tank selector position - improper use ofCause
Checklist - not followedCause
Forced landing
Undershoot
Terrain condition - high vegetationFactor
Analysis
The engine ceased operative while on right base for rwy 35 due to fuel exhaustion. The plt ran the left tank dry. The right tank contained full fuel. The plt had been used to flying Cessna's.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8300Z
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-181
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28839001
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-AYM, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Paul Jensen
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 12, 1985
- Departed
- 75S · Burlington, WA
- Destination
- TIW · Tacoma, WA
- Airport
- TIW · Tacoma Industrial
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
- 56
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 293 total · 6 in this make and model · 123 as pilot in command · 4 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 15 knots, gusting 25
- Visibility
- 75 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TIW