- Date
- November 24, 1989, 00:30 local (06:30 UTC)
- Place
- Wichita, KS
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8912SCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report October 24, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891124046759A
- Case key
- 34915
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Probable cause
Fuel exhaustion due to poor planning and the 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
While making a dark night VFR approach to the destination airport, the pilot said that the engine quit. The acft had been cleared for a straight in approach landing and was located about 3 to 4 miles from the runway threshold. An emergency landing in a residential area was performed. Post accident investigation revealed the fuel tanks to be empty. No other mechanical malfunction was discovered.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8912S
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15062212
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Patterson, Lloyd H.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- EWK · Newton, KS
- Destination
- ICT · Wichita, KS
- Airport
- NONE
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
- 44
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 833 total · 600 in this make and model · 41 in the last 90 days · 19 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 170° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- ICT, 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.