ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 385834
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| Date: | Friday 1 June 2001 |
| Time: | 17:00 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna 180 |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N9311T |
| MSN: | 5081 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 5349 hours |
| Engine model: | Continental O-470-L |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Fairbanks, AK -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Nenana Municipal Airport, AK (ENN/PANN) |
| Fairbanks, AK (AK28) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The certificated commercial pilot, with three passengers aboard, departed from a remote lake in a float-equipped, single engine airplane. While in level, cruise flight, the engine began to run rough, and lose power. Emergency procedures restored partial engine power momentarily, followed by a complete loss of engine power. The airplane collided with trees during a subsequent forced landing, and sustained substantial damage to the fuselage, wings, and empennage. An FAA inspector examined the airplane and reported that both fuel tanks were empty. The pilot reported that the fuel gauges installed in his airplane would consistently provide an inaccurate fuel quantity reading. He added that prior to departure, he visually checked the quantity of fuel in the wing fuel tanks by using a fuel measuring device, but later added that the fuel level reading may have been in error due to the airplane's attitude while moored.
Probable Cause: The pilot's failure to refuel the airplane, his inadequate preflight planning/decision making, and subsequent fuel exhaustion during cruise flight.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB ANC01LA063
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 05-Apr-2024 08:21 | ASN Update Bot | Added |
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