- Date
- September 7, 1992, 10:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Hollywood, FL
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6664SCessna 150H
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 26, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920907039159A
- Case key
- 33129
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
Probable cause
The pilot-in-command's failure to refuel the airplane which resulted in a total loss of engine power in flight due to fuel exhaustion, subsequent forced landing, and on ground collision with a tree on landing roll out.
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 commercial pilot was on final approach for landing, when the airplane experienced a total loss of engine power. A forced landing was accomplished to a field. The airplane collided with a tree on landing roll out. The on scene investigation conducted by the FAA, revealed the left and right fuel tanks were not ruptured. Both fuel tanks were drained. Two and one half gallons of fuel was drained from the right fuel tank, and one quarter of a gallon of fuel was drained from the left fuel tank. The owner's manual for the Cessna 150 states that 3.5 gallons of fuel are unusable.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6664S
- Reported as
- Cessna 150H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15067464
- Airframe hours
- 3,837
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Livingston, Bruce
- Registered owner
- Livingston, Bruce
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 20, 1992
- Departed
- HWO
- Destination
- 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
- 41
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 810 total · 760 in this make and model · 708 as pilot in command · 45 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HWO, 1 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.