Date:	Monday 16 September 1996
Time:	22:00
Type:	Shorts SC.7 Skyvan 3-200
Owner/operator:	North Star Air Cargo
Registration:	N10DA
MSN:	SH.1873
Year of manufacture:	1969
Total airframe hrs:	18553 hours
Engine model:	Garrett TPE331-2-201A
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	5 km from Pittsburgh International Airport, PA (PIT) -   United States of America
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Cargo
Departure airport:	Clarksburg-Benedum Airport, WV (CKB/KCKB)
Destination airport:	Pittsburgh International Airport, PA (PIT/KPIT)
Investigating agency:	NTSB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Flight 1215 departed Clarksburg at 20:35. After a delay due to the weather, the pilot was vectored for a runway 10R instrument approach with a 35 mile final. At 21:48 the pilot declared a fuel critical situation. Several aircraft were then vectored off the ILS. Oil pressure dropped and the no. 2 engine was shut down while on approach. The airplane didn't make it to the runway and struck power lines and telephone poles, and came to rest across a narrow secondary road.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's improper in-flight decision to continue to his destination when known en route delays were encountered which resulted in fuel exhaustion."

Air Safety Week 14 October 1996 (p. 6)
Scramble 210

photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Atlanta International Airport, GA (ATL); February 1978

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