- Date
- August 25, 1990, 11:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Kerrville, TX
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N704XJCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 29, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900825036189A
- Case key
- 23175
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Probable cause
The total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion, which resulted from the pilot's failure to refuel. Contributing to the accident was the pilot becoming lost.
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
Shortly after takeoff for a scheduled solo cross-country instructional flight, the student pilot landed at a private strip and picked up a passenger. En route to the next airport, he got lost and landed at another airport. He did not refuel the airplane. After departing, he got lost again and when the airplane finally got 6 miles from the destination airport, the engine quit due to fuel exhaustion. During the forced landing in a ballpark, the airplane ran into a fence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N704XJ
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15078953
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Panther Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 2, 1990
- Departed
- T28 · Lampasas, TX
- Destination
- ERV · Kerrville, TX
- Airport
- NONE
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
- 28
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 31 total · 31 in this make and model · 11 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ERV, 6 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.