- Date
- September 29, 1992, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Nashville, TN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N7764UCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 29, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920929039269A
- Case key
- 8668
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Probable cause
The student pilot's inadequate inflight planning, which resulted in fuel exhaustion. A factor was his geographical disorientation.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student pilot planned a cross country flight with a scheduled fuel stop at the second en route destination. At the second city he was unable to locate the airport and decided to follow the interstate highway back to Nashville, TN, his departure city. As he neared Nashville, he became concerned about fuel and requested vectors to an airport. Prior to reaching the airport, the engine quit because of fuel exhaustion. The tachometer indicated an elapsed flight of 3.8 hours, while the student's flight planning log depicted 3.6 hours required to return to the departure airport.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7764U
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15077836
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Air Academy
- Registered owner
- Brewer, Lloyd A.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- MQY · Smyrna, TN
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 25
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 51 total · 51 in this make and model · 17 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BNA, 10 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.