- Date
- June 26, 1989, 16:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- Mariposa, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N7744UCessna 172E
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 30, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890626066579A
- Case key
- 26444
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Probable cause
Student pilot's miscalculation of the fuel supply which led to a loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion.
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 cross country flight, the engine lost power due to fuel exhaustion. The student pilot miscalculated the fuel supply. Examination of the fuel tanks revealed no evidence of fuel or post crash leakage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7744U
- Reported as
- Cessna 172E
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- Continental O-300-D, 140 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Phil Hulme
- Departed
- WHP · Los Angeles, CA
- Destination
- O22 · Columbia, CA
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
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 100 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N7744U · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.