- Date
- July 20, 1991, 17:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Weiser, ID
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N8081RBeech V35A
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910720036919A
- Case key
- 41495
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Probable cause
The pilot did not refuel the airplane resulting in fuel exhaustion.
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
During a local flight to take aerial photographs, the airplane experienced a loss of engine power and during emergency landing in an open field, the airplane collided with the terrain.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8081R
- Reported as
- Beech V35A
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-8994
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-D2B, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Other work use · Part 91
- Operator
- Richard L. Graville
- Registered owner
- Richard L. Graville
- Departed
- U35 · Caldwell, ID
- Airport
- S87 · Weiser
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
- 42
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 7,825 total · 2,364 in this make and model · 157 in the last 90 days · 80 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °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.