- Date
- June 15, 1989, 20:39 local (Jun 16, 1989, 00:39 UTC)
- Place
- Miramar, FL
- Injuries
- 3 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N732AGCessna 210L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report September 5, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890615015739A
- Case key
- 32449
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Probable cause
Inadequate planning/decision by the pilot, which resulted in loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion. A contributing factor was the faulty reading from the fuel quantity indicator.
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
Drg arrival at the destn, the eng lost power from fuel exhaustion with the fuel selector psnd to the rgt tank. At that time, the fuel quantity indcr showed the rgt tank was 1/4 full. Subsequently, the acft nosed over drg a forced lndg. The plt rprtd the acft was topped off with 77.1 gal (462.6 lbs) of fuel before the flt, but he did not visually verify the tanks were full. Fuel consumption calculations for a worse case scenario showed that about 473 lbs of fuel would have been used drg the aprx 5 hrs of flt. Total usable fuel capacity for the acft was 534 lbs.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N732AG
- Reported as
- Cessna 210L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 210-61358
- Airframe hours
- 1,484
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-L, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Warnstedt & Braun
- Registered owner
- Warnstedt & Braun
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · February 11, 1989 · 21 hours before
- Departed
- NC67 · West Jefferson, NC
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- HWO
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
- 47
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,304 total · 350 in this make and model · 12 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 130° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HWO, 3 nm away
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 N732AG · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.