ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 354252
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| Date: | Friday 26 June 1998 |
| Time: | 16:00 LT |
| Type: |  Piper PA-23-160 |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N4132P |
| MSN: | 1612 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 4000 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-320-B1A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Casper, WY -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Watertown, SD (ATY |
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| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
While on a personal cross-country flight, the pilot spent time circumnavigating thunderstorms and experienced a complete loss of power due to fuel exhaustion. He conducted a forced landing in a field which was rough and uneven. There was a road beside the field which was suitable to use as a runway for his emergency landing. The aircraft sustained substantial damage to the underside of the fuselage during the forced landing. The pilot did not have a multiengine rating, was inexperienced in the aircraft, and his last biennial flight review was conducted in a single engine aircraft 17 years prior to the accident.
Probable Cause: The pilot's improper in-flight planning and decision making by selecting an inadequate landing area for an emergency landing when a suitable landing area was available. Factors were fuel exhaustion, inaccurate preflight planning, and lack of recent experience.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB FTW98LA288
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 11-Mar-2024 06:11 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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