Cessna 182 N6462A

Summary

On 17 March 2007 at about 05:10 local time, a Cessna 182 registered N6462A was involved in an accident near Diamond Lake, Oregon, United States. One person was on board and one was seriously injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

17 March 2007 at 05:10

Classification

Accident

Location

Diamond Lake, Oregon, United States

Nearest airport

Klamath Falls (KLMT)

Coordinates

43.0875, -122.4689

Aircraft

Cessna 182

Registration

N6462A

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Klamath Falls → Eugene

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Night

NTSB number

LAX07CA111

1 person was seriously injured.

Fuel exhaustion due to the pilot's inadequate preflight inspection and failure to verify the fuel supply. A factor was the night lighting condition.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

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.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.