- Date
- April 28, 1990, 18:45 local (22:45 UTC)
- Place
- Tinton Falls, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N1561QCessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900428012889A
- Case key
- 36637
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Probable cause
The failure of the student pilot to ensure there was sufficient fuel on board for the planned flight. A factor related to the accident was the failure of the flight instructor to properly prepare his student for the flight.
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 student pilot departed with what he called half full tanks. After one hour and 15 minutes he made a forced landing in a field due to fuel exhaustion. During the landing the airplane flipped over. The FAA said they were unable to find fuel in the tanks or evidence of fuel spillage from the tanks.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1561Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15072861
- Airframe hours
- 2,565
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Gibson Air Academy, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 27, 1990 · 6 hours before
- Departed
- BLM · Farmingdale, NJ
- Destination
- Trenton, NJ
- 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
- 28
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 66 total · 66 in this make and model · 28 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point -0 °F
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 N1561Q · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.