- Date
- August 24, 1986, 07:40 local (14:40 UTC)
- Place
- Mount Vernon, WA
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N85KBBrennan Glasair
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19860824081409A
- Case key
- 40481
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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 arrived at the airport about one hour before fuel was available. He assumed that he had enough fuel remaining on board for the next leg of the flight because the duration would be about 10 minutes. About 5 minutes into the flight the aircraft's engine quit due to fuel exhaustion. The pilot landed the aircraft onto a freshly plowed field and nosed over during landing rollout.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N85KB
- Reported as
- Brennan Glasair
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Serial number
- 718R
- Airframe hours
- 43
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-BIE, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Kenneth C. Brennan
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Experimental (Special)
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 18, 1986 · 43 hours before
- Departed
- 75S · Arlington, WA
- Destination
- 74S · Anacortes, WA
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 2,113 total · 43 in this make and model · 43 as pilot in command · 54 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.