ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 285153
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| Date: | Friday 16 March 2007 |
| Time: | 21:10 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna 182 |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N6462A |
| MSN: | 33262 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1956 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 3000 hours |
| Engine model: | Teledyne Continental O-470-L |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Diamond Lake, Oregon -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Klamath Falls-Kingsley Field, OR (LMT/KLMT) |
| Eugene Airport, OR (EUG/KEUG) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
While en route on a night cross-county flight, the engine quit due to fuel exhaustion and the pilot made a forced landing on a mountain slope. The pilot received a phone call earlier that his sister had been admitted to the hospital with a medical condition. The pilot decided that he would fly that night to the city where his sister was hospitalized. The pilot performed a preflight inspection but failed to fuel the airplane. He took off at 2100. Shortly after reaching his cruising altitude of 12,500 feet he realized that he had not fueled the airplane. Upon checking the fuel gauges determined that the fuel tanks were empty. He radioed the tower at his destination airport that he was out of fuel and anticipated a forced landing in the mountains. The engine then quit and he turned the airplane to the southeast to try to land on a small Forest Service mountain runway. He could see the ground and mountainous terrain getting closer, determined that he would not make it to the runway, and proceeded to force land the airplane on a steep snow covered slope.
Probable Cause: Fuel exhaustion due to the pilot's inadequate preflight inspection and failure to verify the fuel supply. A factor was the night lighting condition.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB LAX07CA111
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 01-Oct-2022 18:29 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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