- Date
- April 8, 1992, 22:00 local (Apr 9, 1992, 03:00 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Worth, TX
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N67816Cessna 150 II
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920408009259A
- Case key
- 18356
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Probable cause
A fuel exhaustion induced engine power loss due to the pilot's failure to refuel. A factor was the pilot's inadvertent disorientation.
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
During a night VFR solo cross-country flight the student pilot became disoriented and landed at an alternate enroute airport. He subsequently departed without refueling and again became disoriented and was unable to find his final destination airport. He found a known reference and was attempting to fly to his destination when the engine began to lose power. At that point the pilot turned towards alliance airport when total power loss occurred. During the forced landing emergency descent the airplane struck a transmission line and a tree before an uncontrolled impact with the terrain. One half pint of fuel was found in the fuel tanks at the accident site.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67816
- Reported as
- Cessna 150 II
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282034
- Airframe hours
- 6,586
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Hodge, Anthony W.
- Registered owner
- Hodge, Anthony W.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 23, 1991 · 62 hours before
- Departed
- T47 · Wichita Falls, TX
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- AFW · Fort Worth Alliance, runway 34, 9,600 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 21
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 30 total · 30 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.