Cessna 150G N6281S

Summary

On 18 January 2001 at about 21:00 local time, a Cessna 150G registered N6281S was involved in an accident near La Rose, Illinois, 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

18 January 2001 at 21:00

Classification

Accident

Location

La Rose, Illinois, United States

Coordinates

40.9800, -89.2303

Aircraft

Cessna 150G

Registration

N6281S

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Peru → Lacon

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CHI01LA068

Nobody was injured.

the pilot's inadequate airplane preflight and the snow covered terrain. A factor was the fuel exhaustion.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The airplane sustained substantial damage during nose over encountered on a forced landing to a snow covered field, following an in-flight loss of engine power. The pilot was uninjured. The pilot stated, "In order to describe the circumstances leading up to this accident in chronological order we have to go back to the ending of my last flight. I have been flying this aircraft for the past nineteen years and the ending of every flight was a stop at the fuel pumps to top up the tanks." The pilot did not state that he looked in the fuel tanks during the airplane's preflight for the accident flight. He stated that he perceived that the fuel gauges indicated full. He said, "They are always full. ... My conclusion - Someone between my last flight and this, someone entered my hanger and removed 76% (17 gals) of the useable fuel from my airplane." The airplane's engine was test run at low power and it ran smoothly. Fuel was put in each tank and the fuel gauges indicated above empty. Fuel was found leaking from around the shaft of the fuel shut off valve.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.