- Date
- September 6, 1990, 17:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Glenrock, WY
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N21434Piper PA-32-300RT
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900906038729A
- Case key
- 41269
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Probable cause
Fuel exhaustion resulting from the pilot's inadequate preflight planning/preparation. Unsuitable terrain was a factor related to the accident.
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 stated that he turned to follow a road after one fuel tank ran dry on a flight from newcastle, WY, to csper, WY. When the second tank ran dry, he elected to make a forced landing on the road. Maneuvering to avoid a pickup truck on the road, he made a course reversal and attempted to line up on the road headed the other way. He was unable to complete the turn, and the aircraft sustained substantial damage during the landing roll across the highway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N21434
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32-300RT (PA-32-300R)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 32-R7887209
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-540-S1AD, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Larry M. Savage
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- ECS · Newcastle, WY
- Destination
- CPR · Casper, WY
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
- 51
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 2,732 total · 105 in this make and model · 2,608 as pilot in command · 68 in the last 90 days · 25 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- CPR, 32 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.