- Date
- January 31, 1992, 13:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Canyon Lake, TX
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- HK369Cessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 18439
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to properly monitor his fuel consumption and his failure to divert to an alternate airport prior to running out of gas.
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 pilot experienced a complete power loss while in cruise flight due to fuel exhaustion and executed a forced landing. About 1/4 of a mile from the airstrip where the pilot intended to land, the airplane struck a 40 foot high light pole and electrical lines and nosed over into the ground. The pilot stated that he had departed on the cross country ferry flight with 22.5 gallons of fuel on board. The airplane performance data for the cruise conditions as stated by the pilot indicated the fuel burn up to the point of the engine failure would have been 22.3 gallons.
Aircraft
- Registration
- HK369
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15078965
- Airframe hours
- 3,520
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Operator
- Aviacion De Los Andes, doing business as Aeroandes
- Registered owner
- Aviacion De Los Andes
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 2, 1900
- Departed
- PWA · Oklahoma City, OK
- Destination
- 3R5 · New Braunfels, TX
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 36
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 4,200 total · 400 in this make and model · 1,600 as pilot in command · 270 in the last 90 days · 180 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 30° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SAT, 25 nm away