ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 297056
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| Date: | Saturday 29 June 2002 |
| Time: | 11:30 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna 172M |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N725EC |
| MSN: | 17260842 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1972 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-360 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Hite, Utah -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Boulder, CO (1V5) |
| Halls Crossing, UT (U96) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The pilot reported that he was about 30 miles away from the airport when the airplane's engine lost power. He said he tried to find a place to land. The pilot said, "I found a very small dirt road, so I turned base and then final for it. We had a big tailwind at this point and we overshot the road. I then turned to the right and set it down in the middle of the desert. The landing was soft until we ran out of room and hit a ditch. We almost stopped and the front tire dug in, and it lifted us straight up and then we rolled over slowly on to the top of the plane." In his statement to a Federal Aviation Administration Inspector, the pilot said that he ran out of fuel. An examination of the airplane's fuel system showed no fuel in the tanks. No other pre-impact anomalies were found.
Probable Cause: the pilot's improper in-flight planning resulting in fuel exhaustion. A factor relating to the accident was the unsuitable terrain encountered during the forced landing attempt.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB DEN02LA066
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 14-Oct-2022 13:57 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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