Cessna 150F N8709G

Summary

On 22 August 2000 at about 01:05 local time, a Cessna 150F registered N8709G, operated by Aviation Adventures, was involved in an accident near Friendly, Maryland, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

22 August 2000 at 01:05

Classification

Accident

Location

Friendly, Maryland, United States

Coordinates

38.7299, -77.0001

Aircraft

Cessna 150F

Registration

N8709G

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Aviation Adventures

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Salsbury → Unknown

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Dusk

NTSB number

NYC00LA235

Nobody was injured.

The pilot's inability to locate the airport, which resulted in fuel exhaustion. A factor related to the accident was the night light conditions.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

While on the last leg of a solo cross-country flight, the student pilot became disoriented and contacted air traffic control for assistance. The air traffic controller at vectored the airplane over the destination airport two times, but the student pilot could not visually identify the airport due to increasing darkness. After about 20 minutes of searching for the airport, the fuel supply was exhausted, and the engine quit. The student pilot conducted a forced landing to a road, where it struck a tree before coming to rest upright. Visual inspection of the airplane after the accident revealed no evidence of fuel in the airplanes wing tanks or at the accident site.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.