Cessna 150L N19045

Summary

On 12 April 2001 at about 08:00 local time, a Cessna 150L registered N19045 was involved in an accident near Iowa Park, Texas, United States. 2 people were 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

12 April 2001 at 08:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Iowa Park, Texas, United States

Nearest airport

Wichita Valley (F14)

Coordinates

33.9502, -98.6809

Aircraft

Cessna 150L

Registration

N19045

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Bowie → Wichita Falls

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Night/Dark

NTSB number

FTW01LA099

Nobody was injured.

fuel exhaustion during takeoff due to the pilot's failure to refuel.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

After about 3.8 hours of night cross country instructional flight, the CFI and dual student pilot were in a local touch and go pattern toward the conclusion of the planned flight. With the student pilot at the controls, during the final take off, the airplane was at an altitude of about 50 feet AGL when the engine lost power. The CFI took control and landed the airplane on the end of the departure runway, but could not stop before rolling through a grass field, a barbed wire fence, over a road, and into a ditch. A visual inspection of the aircraft at the accident site revealed that the fuel gauge for the left fuel tank did not register any amount of fuel, and the right fuel tank gauge registered below the "E" mark on the gauge. A visual check of the sight gauges on level ground showed about 1/4 gallons in the right fuel tank and less than 1 gallon in the left fuel tank.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.