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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event FTW90LA014

1989-10-21 LAREDO, Texas, United States Airport · LRD None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N21GC

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

AMERICAN CHAMPION AIRCRAFT 7EC

Year of manufacture

2014

Engine

CONT MOTOR O-200-D (100 hp)

Seats / Engines

2 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

20140701

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A1B7C2

Registrant of record

UER LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

Probable cause & findings

DOUBLE ENGINE FAILURE DUE TO FUEL EXHAUSTION. THE FUEL EXHAUSTION WAS CAUSED BY INCORRECT INFLIGHT FUEL CONSUMPTION CALCULATIONS AND ONE INACCURATE FUEL QUANITY GAUGE. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE DARK NIGHT RESTRICTION TO VISIBILITY. Source: NTSB Aviation Accident Database (Pre-2008 Archive) Retrieved: 2026-02-12

Verbatim from NTSB's published report. Source file NTSB_1989_FTW90LA014.txt. Findings + structured fields enriched from FAA avall.mdb. Full investigation docket on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Related research

What the literature says.

Academic papers and agency reports matching this event's aircraft type or causal vocabulary (fuel exhaustion, engine failure). Sourced from NASA NTRS, NTSB Safety Studies, FAA CAMI, AOPA Air Safety Institute, Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons, arXiv, and the Semantic Scholar academic graph.

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