- Date
- June 24, 1990, 14:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Savanna, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N5744FPiper PA 28 140
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 21, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900624021989A
- Case key
- 14452
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Probable cause
The pilot's misjudgement of the airplane's fuel supply, resulting in fuel exhaustion.
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
A private pilot flew a cross-country circuit to include two touch-and-go landings at an intermediate field. On the return leg, he experienced engine stoppage. He restarted the engine, which ran briefly, then quit again. Fuel pressure read zero PSI. Flight time since the last refueling was 3.8 hours. Estimated cruise endurance on the available fuel was 4.0 hours, discounting fuel required for ground operation, takeoff and climb.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5744F
- Reported as
- Piper PA 28 140
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-25045
- Airframe hours
- 6,800
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2A, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Janssen, Darrell, doing business as Freeport Air Service
- Registered owner
- Darrell Jansen
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 15, 1989 · 55 hours before
- Departed
- LNR · Lone Rock, WI
- Destination
- FEP · Freeport, IL
- Airport
- SFY · Franklin U Stransky, runway 13, 2,950 × 60 ft, water
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
- 19
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 91 total · 10 in this make and model · 47 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.