- Date
- July 14, 2025, 19:50 local (23:50 UTC)
- Place
- Pembroke Pines, FL
- Injuries
- 3 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N289Cessna T337G
- Defining event
- Approach: Fuel exhaustion
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report November 14, 2025
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- Case key
- 200525
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Probable cause
The pilot’s inadequate preflight fuel planning, which resulted in fuel exhaustion and a subsequent total loss of engine power to one of the airplane’s two engines. Contributing to the outcome was the pilot’s loading of the airplane beyond its maximum gross weight.
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 was conducting a long, multi-stop cross-country flight in a multi-engine airplane. About 3 miles from the destination airport, the airplane’s rear engine lost power completely due to fuel exhaustion. The pilot was unable to maintain altitude and the airplane subsequently impacted a tree resulting in substantial damage to the fuselage, wings, and empennage. The pilot reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The pilot also stated that he had incorrectly calculated the airplane’s range and endurance prior to departing on the flight. Postaccident weight and balance calculations also showed that the airplane was likely being operated beyond its maximum gross weight by more than 500 pounds. This likely contributed to the airplane’s inability to maintain altitude following the loss of engine power to one of the two engines.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N289
- Reported as
- Cessna T337G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- P3370233
- Built
- 1976
- Airframe hours
- 3,016
- Engines
- Continental TSIO-360 CB6B, 180 horsepower, reciprocatingContinental TSIO-360 CB5B, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 1, 2025 · 84 hours before
- Departed
- SJU · San Juan, PR
- Destination
- HWO · Hollywood, FL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- HWO · North Perry Airport
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, 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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 58
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 18, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 1,296 total · 30 in this make and model · 1,296 as pilot in command · 33 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 220° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.02 inHg
- Observed at
- HWO, 13 nm away
- METAR
- KHWO 142353Z 22006KT 10SM -RA CLR 25/22 A3002 RMK AO2 SLP164 P0003 60217 T02500222 10328 20239 55023
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 14, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.0 MB in all.