- Date
- September 22, 1990, 17:10 local (21:10 UTC)
- Place
- Brookley, GA
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N22909Cessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900922041539A
- Case key
- 8279
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Probable cause
Fuel exhaustion. Factors include improper planning/decision by the pilot-in-command.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The pilots were conducting closed traffic take-offs and landings, when the engine quit during the third climbout. The pilots had flown 20 minutes and had departed with an undetermined amount of fuel. A small quantity of fuel was recovered from both fuel tanks. No mechanical problems were reported or discovered during the investigation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N22909
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15068609
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Phillips Sandra C.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- Statesboro, GA
- Airport
- 6J9 · Davis Airpark, runway 25, 2,700 × 100 ft, grass/turf
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 70
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 5,000 total · 1,000 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 97 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SAV, 30 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N22909 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.