- Date
- November 20, 1989, 17:45 local (Nov 21, 1989, 01:45 UTC)
- Place
- Bremerton, WA
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N63496Cessna 172
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report June 25, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891120046119A
- Case key
- 41151
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Probable cause
Fuel exhaustion and inadequate preflight planning.
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
While in cruise flt in IMC conditions. The pilot reported to ATC he was having engine problems. The dual student stated it was fuel. ATC vectored the acft for ldg at the nearest arpt. The acft impacted trees 1.5 miles northeast of Bremerton arpt. There was no fuel in the tanks or odor of fuel at the site. The pilot reported in an interview that the engine quit from fuel exhaustion.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N63496
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17275443
- Airframe hours
- 4,361
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Flight Tech, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 19, 1989
- Departed
- TIW · Tacoma, WA
- Destination
- BFI · Seattle, WA
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- PWT · Bremmerton
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
- 27
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,478 total · 94 in this make and model · 1,267 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 190° at 11 knots, gusting 17
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 700 ft broken
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PWT, 2 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.