- Date
- July 27, 1991, 15:10 local (22:10 UTC)
- Place
- Hillsboro, OR
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9425YBeech N35
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910727030239A
- Case key
- 41499
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Probable cause
Fuel starvation due to the improper use of the fuel selector switch by the pilot and his failure to extend the landing gear for the forced landing.
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 acft eng quit in cruise flt at 1500 AGL and the pilot made a forced landing in an open field with the landing gear retracted. Exam of acft revealed the fuel selector on the empty left tank, and the rt tank had 20 gal fuel. Eng ran ok after the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9425Y
- Reported as
- Beech N35
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- D-6604
- Engine
- Continental IO-470-N, 260 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Lynn K. Ankrum
- Registered owner
- Lynn K. Ankrum
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- AST · Astoria, OR
- Destination
- SLE · Salem, OR
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 53
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,605 total · 650 in this make and model · 1,500 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 60 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HIO, 3 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.