- Date
- July 1, 2022, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Harrah, OK
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6147TCessna 150E
- Defining event
- Approach-VFR go-around: Fuel exhaustion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Flight Standards District Office
- FAA report
- 20220701011599A
- Case key
- 105414
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The flight instructor’s inadequate inflight fuel planning that resulted in fuel exhaustion and a forced landing.
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 flight instructor reported that he and the student pilot departed the short turf runway with a low fuel load to practice landings at another airport. The flight instructor planned to refuel midway through the flight but forgot to stop for fuel, despite observing that fuel quantity gage indications were low during the flight. While the airplane climbed out during a go-around, the engine lost power due to fuel exhaustion. The flight instructor made a forced landing and the airplane impacted trees. The airplane sustained substantial damage to both wings. The flight instructor reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation. The flight instructor attributed the inflight fuel planning error to a lack of recent flight instructor experience and the distractions of a challenging training environment.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6147T
- Reported as
- Cessna 150E
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15060847
- Built
- 1964
- Airframe hours
- 5,003
- Engine
- Cont Motor 0-200 SERIES, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 30, 2021 · 89 hours before
- Departed
- PRIV · Harrah, OK
- Destination
- PRIV · Harrah, OK
- Airport
- PRIV · Oklahoma Academy Airport, runway N/A, 1,400 × 100 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 42
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 30, 2020
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 472 total · 86 in this make and model · 253 as pilot in command · 21 in the last 90 days · 21 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 19
- Injuries
- Minor
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 23 total · 12 in this make and model · 10 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots, gusting 18
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 95 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.92 inHg
- Observed at
- KTIK, 11 nm away
- METAR
- KTIK 011956Z AUTO 18010G18KT 10SM FEW055 35/20 A2992 RMK AO2 SLP122 T03460198
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 14, 2022, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.3 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.