- Date
- July 12, 1988, 18:30 local (Jul 13, 1988, 01:30 UTC)
- Place
- The Dalles, OR
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N18823Beech C23
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 9, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880713026379A
- Case key
- 40842
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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
CFI underestimated fuel consumption on multi-stop cross country and did not visually check fuel remaining prior to last departure. Fuel exhaustion occurred 18 minutes into flight. Acft flipped inverted on forced landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N18823
- Reported as
- Beech C23
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- M 1951
- Airframe hours
- 1,280
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4K, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Richard Aukema, doing business as Aero West, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Richard L Aukema
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 4, 1988 · 8 hours before
- Departed
- 4S2 · Hood River, OR
- Destination
- TTD · Troutdale, OR
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- DLS · The Dalles Muni, runway 12, 5,097 × 150 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
- 30
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 960 total · 30 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 9,000 ft broken
- Observed at
- DLS
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.