- Date
- March 15, 1993, 15:36 local (20:36 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Pierce, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N6168KCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 10, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930315007399A
- Case key
- 33240
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Probable cause
Inaccurate fuel consumption calculations, resulting 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
During the third and final leg of the cross-country flt, during cruise flt, the eng quit due to fuel exhaustion. During the emergency descent for the forced landing, the acft collided with trees, then the ground. Review of the acft records indicate that the acft had been operated for 4.6 hrs since fueling. The fuel tanks were drained which revealed that they contained about 1 gallon of fuel.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6168K
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15077565
- Airframe hours
- 2,031
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Corporate Aircraft Service
- Registered owner
- Airplane Investments, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 8, 1993 · 87 hours before
- Departed
- OPF · Opa-Locka, FL
- Destination
- VRB · Vero Beach, FL
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
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 130 total · 70 as pilot in command · 30 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 20° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,500 ft broken
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FPR, 2 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.