- Date
- September 16, 1991, 15:42 local (22:42 UTC)
- Place
- Hillsboro, OR
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N714RKCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910916044509A
- Case key
- 41537
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Probable cause
Inadequate preflight planning, which resulted in an inadequate fuel supply and 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
The student pilot refueled at his first stop on a cross-country flight, rather than at the second stop as recommended by his flight instructor. As he was approaching to land at his final destination, the engine lost power. The aircraft crashed in trees about one half mile from the active runway. An investigation revealed that less than one gallon of fuel was remaining in each of the two wing tanks. Unusable fuel for this aircraft was 3.5 gallons.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N714RK
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15079373
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Eagle Flight Center
- Registered owner
- Eagle Flight Center
- Departed
- MFR · Medford, OR
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- HIO · Portland-Hillsboro
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
- 20
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 80 total · 19 in this make and model · 22 as pilot in command · 45 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 10° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HIO, 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.