NASA · Aviation Safety Reporting System
C150 Pilot reported fuel exhaustion caused engine failure and a forced, off airport landing in a field.
What is ASRS?
The Aviation Safety Reporting System is NASA's voluntary, confidential, non- punitive incident-reporting system, established 1976. Pilots, controllers, dispatchers, and maintenance technicians file reports describing safety- relevant events. NASA de-identifies every report before adding it to the public database. Reports are not investigated by NASA, the FAA, or the NTSB — they represent the reporter's perspective.
Pilot narrative
Verbatim from the de-identified NASA record. First-person account by the
reporter. NASA strips identifying details (names, company, specific time);
anonymization placeholders are ZZZ,
X, Y.
Ran out of fuel on the way from ZZZ to ZZZ1. Checked fuel when departing from ZZZ to ZZZ1 and got 8 and 5 gallons left and right. Landed in a field, no damage to the aircraft, measured fuel after getting out, 4 gallons in one tank and zero in another. Got about 3.2 tach hours since measuring ranks in the morning at 10 and 11.
NASA classification — Anomalies
- Aircraft Equipment Problem
- Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural
- Ground Event / Encounter
- Inflight Event / Encounter
NASA classification — Assessments
- Contributing Factors / Situations
- Aircraft
- Primary Problem
- Aircraft
ASRS reports are voluntarily submitted, de-identified by NASA, and represent the reporter's perspective. The presence of reports on a topic cannot be used to infer prevalence in the National Airspace System. The authoritative source is the NASA ASRS Database Online at asrs.arc.nasa.gov ↗.