- Date
- July 4, 1991, 09:30 local (16:30 UTC)
- Place
- Flagstaff, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N64556Cessna 150K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 24, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 27269
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Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's improper preflight planning of fuel requirements to accomplish the intended flight which resulted in an inadequate fuel supply and subsequent loss of engine power. A factor was the fence.
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
A Cessna 150K collided with fence and nosed over in an open field after a loss of engine power. The pilot indicated that the loss of engine power was a result of fuel exhaustion. The airplane took off with full fuel tanks. Three hours later the engine loss power. The distance between the departure airport and the intended destination is about 344 NM. The pilot's operating handbook lists under the performance specifications the airplane's range is 340 nautical miles in 3.3 hours, using 75 percent engine power at a 7000 foot pressure altitude. Federal aviation regulations dictate pilot's before beginning a flight become familiar with fuel requirements, and have enough fuel to fly to the first point of intended landing and fly after that for at least 30 minutes.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N64556
- Reported as
- Cessna 150K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15071955
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Henry Halle
- Registered owner
- Henry Halle
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- Q58 · Santa Rosa, NM
- Airport
- FLG · Pulliam Field
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 43
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
- Flight hours
- 600 total · 100 in this make and model · 600 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 20 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FLG, 13 nm away