- Date
- August 29, 2026, 17:45 local (Aug 30, 2026, 00:45 UTC)
- Place
- Mecca, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N333WBeech E-55
- Defining event
- Enroute-descent: Fuel exhaustion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 203703
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Fuel exhaustionBeech E-55: 1 caseAll aircraft: 804 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- N333W
- Reported as
- Beech E-55
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- TE-1172
- Built
- 1979
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Danarich LLC
- Departed
- UDD · Palm Springs, CA
- Destination
- TRM · Palm Springs, CA
- Airport
- TRM · Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport
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.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 111 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.62 inHg
- Observed at
- KTRM, 6 nm away
- METAR
- METAR KTRM 292352Z AUTO 28003KT 10SM CLR 44/13 A2962 RMK AO2 SLP033 T04440133 10450 20394 56025