CHI84LA391 · Cessna 182J
Cessna 182J · Accident: total loss of engine power (non-mechanical) en route
From Alpena County Regional Airport (APN) to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- CHI84LA391
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna 182J
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 182
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N3058F
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Alpena County Regional Airport (APN), Alpena, MITo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- En route · cruise
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Total loss of engine power (non-mechanical)
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Fuel exhaustion
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Fluid, fuel › Exhaustion
- Pilot in command › Aircraft preflight, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Fuel supply, disregarded
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
ACFT HAD BEEN FUELED FOR APRX 4 HRS ENDURANCE. TWO HRS INTO FLT ON IFR FLT PLAN, PLT DESCENDED TO 3000 FT WITH INTERMITTENT VISUAL GROUND CONTACT. SHORTLY THEREAFTER, WITH THE ACFT ABOUT 10 MINS FROM DESTINATION, THE ENGINE BEGAN TO SPUTTER. PLT STATED HE SWITCHED FUEL SELECTOR FROM 'BOTH' TO UNSPECIFIED TANK, SET MIXTURE RICH AND PUMPED THROTTLE. ENGINE REGAINED PWR MOMENTARILY, SPUTTERED AND QUIT. PLT REQUESTED AND RECEIVED RADAR VECTORS TO DESTINATION AIRPORT, BUT INSUFFICIENT ALTITUDE REMAINED FOR GLIDE TO AIRPORT. FORCED LANDING EXECUTED AT NIGHT ON ROADWAY. INVESTIGATION SHOWED FUEL STAIN FROM LEFT TANK FILLER CAP TO TRAILING EDGE OF WING. REFUELING PERSONNEL AND ON-SCENE FAA INSPECTOR REPORTED DIFFICULTY IN SEATING FUEL CAP PROPERLY. AD 83-13-01 NOT COMPLIED WITH BUT VISUAL INSPECTION DID NOT INDICATE A NEED FOR REPAIR ON LEFT FUEL CAP. NO FUEL WAS FOUND ON BOARD THE ACFT. FUEL GAGES FUNCTIONALLY CHECKED AND FOUND TO OPERATE NORMALLY.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CHI84LA391
- Event ID
- 20001214X41006
- Case number
- CHI84LA391
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1984-09-15.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 1c67945842e75f6ace01f5bb64064f5227aeec84e02924d53d58e2cd159e127d; retrieved 2026-09-22T02:06:38.267Z.