Probable cause: The pilot’s failure to ensure that sufficient fuel was available for the flight, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion.
NTSB Accidents
Piper pilot hits trees while trying to land
Probable cause: The pilot’s failure to attain a proper glidepath on approach for landing, which resulted in impact with trees. Contributing to the accident was a partial, temporary loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined bec
Fuel exhaustion leads to off-airport landing
Probable cause: The pilot’s failure to ensure that adequate fuel was onboard for the flight, which resulted in fuel exhaustion and the loss of engine power.
Birds strike Cessna 172
Probable cause: An in-flight collision with multiple birds.
Biennial flight review ends in runway excursion
Probable cause: The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during a simulated left engine failure during takeoff. Also causal to the accident was the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action to maintain directional control and re
Travel Air pilot hits plane on ground
Probable cause: The pilot’s failure to see and avoid the airplane stopped ahead of him during taxi.
Inadequate weather planning fatal for pilot
Probable cause: The pilot’s inadequate preflight weather planning and in-flight weather evaluation, which resulted in an encounter with a strong cold front and the pilot’s subsequent loss of airplane control.
Student’s improper flare results in prop strike
Probable cause: The student pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a bounced landing.
Bounced landing bends Luscombe
Probable cause: The pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a bounced landing, and his subsequent failure to maintain directional control, which resulted in a runway excursion.