- Date
- July 4, 1991, 16:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Milford, UT
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N816CBPiper PA-28R
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 8, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910704025989A
- Case key
- 41470
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Probable cause
Fuel exhaustion, and the pilot's misjudgment of proper descent rate. Factors include inadequate preflight planning, poor in-flight decision, becoming lost/disoriented, and a fence.
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 PA-28 clipped a fence and impacted the ground during an attempted emergency landing, after running out of fuel approximately 130 nautical miles short of destination. The pilot stated that in addition to circumnavigating weather en route, he expereinced stronger than expected headwinds and was lost/disoriented when he was blown off course and was unable to pick up the VOR by which he expected to navigate.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N816CB
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28R
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28R-31021
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-B1E, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Less Bartlett Aviation
- Registered owner
- Charles E. Fagan
- Departed
- EMT · El Monte, CA
- Destination
- PVU · Provo, UT
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
- 50
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 200 total · 10 in this make and model · 4 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 45° at 16 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.