ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 179303
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| Date: | Saturday 5 September 2015 |
| Time: | 13:30 |
| Type: |  Cessna 152 |
| Owner/operator: | Dean International Inc. |
| Registration: | N6141Q |
| MSN: | 15285164 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1981 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 8133 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-235-L2C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Near Miami Executive Airport (KTMB), Miami, FL -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Miami, FL (TMB) |
| Miami, FL (TMB) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The private pilot reported that, before taking off to practice instrument approaches in the local traffic pattern, he checked the airplane’s fuel status by looking at the cockpit quantity indicators and looking into the fuel tanks. After conducting three touch-and-go instrument landing system landings, the pilot was attempting a GPS landing. While established on radar vectors for an instrument approach and at 1,500 ft mean sea level, he observed engine “roughness,” followed by a loss of power. He attempted a forced landing on a road; however, he subsequently chose to land in a muddy area within the boundary of a national park instead.
Postaccident examination of the wreckage revealed that the fuel system was undamaged, and there was no evidence of fuel leakage at the scene. The fuel tanks were drained, and 0.45 gallon of fuel was recovered from the left tank, and no fuel was found in the right tank. The operator reported that, at the time of the accident, the airplane had been flown for about 4.6 hours since its last refueling. The airplane had a usable fuel capacity of 24.5 gallons, and its fuel consumption rate in cruise flight was about 6.1 gallons per hour; therefore, the usable fuel would have been consumed during the accident flight.
Probable Cause: The pilot's improper preflight fuel planning and in-flight fuel management, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
FAA register: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=N6141Q
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 8 January 1990 | N6141Q | Skyways, Inc. | 0 | Rochester, IN | |
sub |
| 4 April 2013 | N6141Q | C | 0 | Miami, Florida | |
sub |
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 05-Sep-2015 20:39 | Geno | Added |
| 06-Sep-2015 17:26 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type] |
| 06-Sep-2015 18:30 | Geno | Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Phase, Source, Narrative] |
| 08-Sep-2015 21:42 | Geno | Updated [Registration, Cn, Source] |
| 18-Sep-2015 23:16 | Geno | Updated [Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 21-Dec-2016 19:30 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency] |
| 01-Dec-2017 15:26 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Operator, Other fatalities, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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