- Date
- November 2, 1990, 17:00 local (Nov 3, 1990, 01:00 UTC)
- Place
- Columbia, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4687XCessna 150G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 23, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901102048609A
- Case key
- 27052
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Probable cause
Poor planning which resulted in 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
The damaged aircraft was found by toulumne county officers abandoned in a field about two miles south of the Columbia airport. No fuel was found in the aircraft tanks. The pilot did not report the accident and has not responded to requests for information by either the sheriff's department, the FAA, or the NTSB.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4687X
- Reported as
- Cessna 150G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15064737
- Engine
- Continental O-200 A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Tommy J. Rau
- Registered owner
- Unknown
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
- 49
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 25 total · 25 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 25 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 N4687X · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.