- Date
- March 17, 1986, 19:10 local (Mar 18, 1986, 03:10 UTC)
- Place
- Reno, NV
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4360VPiper PA-46-310P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 40311
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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Analysis
At FL250 the engine ceased operating due to a failed fuel pump. A restart was successful at 10,000 feet m.s.l. with an uneventful landing. This fuel pump (a model g) had a total time of three hours. It was a replacement for a model c fuel pump which had previously failed because of a crack in the aneriod bellows. The model g failed due to tolerances being too close.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4360V
- Reported as
- Piper PA-46-310P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 46-8051
- Airframe hours
- 400
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-BE, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Part 91
- Operator
- Mike Monet, doing business as Memory Technology
- Registered owner
- Mike Monet
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 30, 1985
- Departed
- RHV · San Jose, CA
- Destination
- RVH · San Jose, CA
- 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
- 32
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,238 total · 249 in this make and model · 4,113 as pilot in command · 96 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg