- Date
- June 6, 1987, 09:26 local (16:26 UTC)
- Place
- Huelo, HI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N10566Cessna 150L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 8, 1988
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 25604
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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 local pleasure sightseeing flight, the engine lost power and eventually quit. The plt initiated an emergency landing in a pineapple field where the acft collided with the terrain and nosed over. The acft was found to have aprx half a gallon of fuel in the entire fuel system. There were no mechanical failures or malfunctions noted during an engine run after the accident. The plt stated after the acc that he estimated from tank obsercation that the acft contained about 10 gals of fuel. The plts handbook states that 3.5 gals are unusable. The plt noted on preflt that the left fuel gauge read full and the rt read empty. An FAA inspector noted after the acc that fuel was running out of the left fuel vent. The wing showed evidence of in flt leakage. The acft had a history of a fuel vent leak. The acft flew aprx 3/4 of an hour on the acc flt.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N10566
- Reported as
- Cessna 150L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15074913
- Airframe hours
- 4,578
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Maui Flight School
- Registered owner
- Jack P. Dixon
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 1, 1987 · 25 hours before
- Departed
- OGG · Kahului, HI
- Destination
- HNM · Hana, HI
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
- 29
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 3,840 total · 540 in this make and model · 3,670 as pilot in command · 100 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OGG, 10 nm away