- Date
- September 2, 1989, 19:53 local (Sep 3, 1989, 00:53 UTC)
- Place
- Dallas, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N60062Cessna 150J
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 22, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890902033469A
- Case key
- 22911
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Probable cause
Pilot's failure to accurately calculate the necesary fuel for the flight and assure that the aircraft had been refueled to provide that quantity.
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
The student pilot was on a solo cross-country flight from grand prairie to tyler & return. After initially departing grand prairie the pilot had problems operating the radios & returned. He again departed grand prairie, without refueling, for tyler. On the return trip from tyler the pilot became lost, and the engine eventually quit due to fuel exhaustion. A forced landing was made in a field & the aircraft collide with trees & nosed into a gully. The aircraft was not refueled at tyler. The aircraft had operated 4.1 hrs.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N60062
- Reported as
- Cessna 150J
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15070045
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Cameron, Marcus
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- TYR · Tyler, TX
- Destination
- F67 · Grand Prairie, TX
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- RBD · Redbird
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
- 35
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 47 total · 29 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RBD
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.