- Date
- July 30, 1995, 11:50 local (17:50 UTC)
- Place
- West Jordan, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N61284Cessna 150J
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 8, 1996
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19950730020229A
- Case key
- 42208
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
The pilot's failure to refuel the aircraft prior to initiating his cross-country flight resulting in a total power loss due to fuel exhaustion.
Analysis
The pilot stated that he had flown the airplane approximately 1.5 hours since its most recent refueling two days previously. About 2 hours 20 minutes after departing moab, the airplane ran out of fuel. The airplane struck a pole during a forced landing into a school yard.
Factual narrative
On July 30, 1995, approximately 1150 mountain daylight time, a Cessna 150, N61284, collided with a pole during a forced landing near West Jordan, Utah. The private pilot, who was the sole occupant, was not injured, but the aircraft sustained substantial damage. The personal pleasure flight, which departed Moab, Utah, about two hours and twenty minutes earlier, was en route to Bountiful, Utah, at the time of the accident. The aircraft was being operated in visual meteorological conditions. No flight plan had been filed, and there was no report of an ELT activation.
According to the pilot, he had not topped off his fuel tanks prior to departing Moab, and he ran out of fuel attempting to reach the Bountiful Airport. Prior to the date of this flight, he had flown the airplane approximately 1.5 hours since it had been fueled. During an attempted forced landing in a nearby school yard, the aircraft collided with poles supporting playground equipment.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N61284
- Reported as
- Cessna 150J
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15070941
- Airframe hours
- 4,700
- Engine
- Continental O-200A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Fire
- Unknown
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Richard W. Baggett
- Registered owner
- Fields, Jim
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- CNY · Moab, UT
- Destination
- BTF · Bountiful, UT
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
- 51
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 990 total · 146 in this make and model · 905 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.