- Date
- January 28, 2015, 03:00 local (09:00 UTC)
- Place
- Rothville, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N131XCessna 310B
- Defining event
- Enroute-cruise: Fuel exhaustion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Status
- Completed · report June 1, 2015
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- FAA Kansas City FSDO
- FAA report
- 20150128001289A
- Case key
- 90665
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Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate preflight planning and fuel management which resulted in fuel exhaustion.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The pilot reported that the airplane was at 8,000 feet mean sea level when it ran out of fuel. He executed a forced landing to a field which resulted in substantial damage to the airplane. The pilot reported no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
The pilot reported that the airplane was at 8,000 feet mean sea level when it ran out of fuel. He executed a forced landing to a field which resulted in substantial damage to the airplane. The pilot reported no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N131X
- Reported as
- Cessna 310B
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 35239
- Built
- 1955
- Airframe hours
- 5,798
- Engine
- Continental O-470, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Tommy Lee Kirk
- Registered owner
- Pending
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 24, 2014
- Departed
- JDD · Quitman, TX
- Destination
- Unknown, MO
- Equipment
- Stall warning system
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
- 45
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 15, 2015
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 398 total · 92 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 120° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Temperature
- 28 °F, dew point 27 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- IRK
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 11, 2015, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.9 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.