Scottsdale - Silver City

On March 13, 1986 at 08:07 PM, Scottsdale - Silver City experienced a crash involving Cessna 401, operated by Flying a Flight Service, with the event recorded near Silver City New Mexico.

The flight was categorized as positioning and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

2 people were known to be on board, 0 fatalities were recorded, 2 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 0.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 0, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The two commercial rated pilots were returning from a part 135 flight at night. The fuel tanks were inadvertently not switched from mains to auxiliary. Fuel starvation occurred when aircraft was at low altitude. Insufficient altitude remained to restart the engines. Aircraft impacted ground. A post accident fire erupted destroying the aircraft. Both pilots were seriously injured.

Aircraft reference details include registration N9867F, MSN 401-0301, year of manufacture 1969.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 32.7712°, -108.2764°.