Piper PA-38-112 N9276T

Summary

On 7 June 2008 at about 17:40 local time, a Piper PA-38-112 registered N9276T, operated by Barry W. McDaniel, was involved in an accident near Kykotsmovi, Arizona, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

7 June 2008 at 17:40

Classification

Accident

Location

Kykotsmovi, Arizona, United States

Coordinates

35.8703, -110.6017

Aircraft

Piper PA-38-112

Registration

N9276T

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Barry W. McDaniel

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Bull Frog → Winslow

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

LAX08CA166

Nobody was injured.

Fuel exhaustion due to the pilot's inadequate preflight planning and failure to ensure that adequate fuel was onboard to complete the flight.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot believed he took off with 14 gallons of fuel aboard, and flew toward his destination, 170 miles away. He calculated that the fight should take 1 hour 40 minutes. En route he noticed that fuel was disappearing quickly, and assumed there was a headwind. After 1 hour 40 minutes, the airplane ran out of fuel, 57 statute miles from his destination, and the pilot landed in the desert. At a fuel consumption rate of 5.3 gallons per hour, the total actual fuel aboard at the time of takeoff was most likely 9 gallons.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.