- Date
- February 9, 1992, 16:45 local (23:45 UTC)
- Place
- Tucson, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N9312UCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920209002369A
- Case key
- 27554
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Probable cause
Fuel exhaustion due to the instructor pilot's failure to refuel the aircraft.
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 and his student departed their home base to a local non controlled airport for some touch and go landings. During the climb out from the alternate field, the engine quit. During the subsequent forced landing the aircraft collided with high vegetation and terrain. The instructor stated that the initial takeoff from the home base airport was with 13 gallons of fuel. At the accident scene one of the two pilots told a witness that the aircraft had ran out of fuel. FAA inspectors confirmed that the aircraft was in fact out of fuel.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9312U
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15078262
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Leading Edge Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Leading Edge Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 3, 1992 · 9 hours before
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
- 25
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,200 total · 310 in this make and model · 864 as pilot in command · 170 in the last 90 days · 70 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
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 N9312U · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.