- Date
- August 12, 1990, 11:34 local (18:34 UTC)
- Place
- Morgan Hill, CA
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N67755Taylorcraft DC-65
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 12, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900812033279A
- Case key
- 26891
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Probable cause
Fuel exhaustion, due the certified flight instructors improper preflight inspection.
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 instructor pilot stated he observed two thirds fuel remaining on the fuel tank sight gauges before departure for a dual period. The student pilot stated she saw no fuel indication on the sight gauges and so stated to the instructor before departure. No further mention of fuel was made. The aircraft force landed after fuel exhaustion.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67755
- Reported as
- Taylorcraft DC-65
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 6023
- Engine
- Continental A65/8, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Amelia Reid Aviation
- Departed
- RHV · San Jose, CA
- Destination
- RHV
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
- 54
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Multi-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 11,874 total · 184 in this make and model · 11,744 as pilot in command · 112 in the last 90 days · 62 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- 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 N67755 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.