ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 291724
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| Date: | Thursday 12 October 2006 |
| Time: | 09:30 LT |
| Type: |  Beechcraft E-55 |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | N94LL |
| MSN: | TE-1080 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1976 |
| Engine model: | Teledyne Continental IO-520-C7B |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Ontario, Oregon -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Friday Harbor Airport, WA (FRD/KFHR) |
| Nampa, ID (S67) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
According to the pilot, he departed thinking the airplane had 115 gallons of fuel aboard, when it had 55 gallons of fuel aboard. The shortfall of 60 gallons was the result of a refueling request that the pilot made to a fixed base operator that did not take place and that the pilot did not verify had taken place. Fuel exhaustion occurred in both engines when the airplane was approximately 7,500 feet above an airport. The pilot spiraled down over the airport and entered the pattern for runway 14. He intentionally elected "to err on the side of landing long and not have any risk of being short." On short final, the airplane was "clearly high and fast, pretty much as expected, but not slowing, which was not expected." The airplane touched down approximately 1,000 feet prior to the end of the runway, overran the runway end, impacted a concrete irrigation channel about 350 feet from the runway end, and came to a stop approximately 200 feet past the channel.
Probable Cause: The dual loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion as a result of the pilot's failure to adequately determine the amount of fuel aboard the airplane during his preflight preparation. A contributing factor was the pilot's misjudgment of distance/speed during the forced landing, which resulted in a runway overrun.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB SEA07CA008
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 07-Oct-2022 18:14 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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