Cessna 172F N8881U

Summary

On 6 July 2008 at about 00:10 local time, a Cessna 172F registered N8881U was involved in an accident near Pomona, California, 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

6 July 2008 at 00:10

Classification

Accident

Location

Pomona, California, United States

Coordinates

34.0789, -117.7639

Aircraft

Cessna 172F

Registration

N8881U

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

El Cajon → Pomona

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

LAX08CA214

Nobody was injured.

Fuel exhaustion due to the pilot's inadequate preflight planning and his failure to refuel the airplane.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The pilot said that when he started his cross-country flight, 2.4 hours had been flown by the airplane since the fuel tanks had been topped off. His first leg was 1.1 hours in length; he landed and spent approximately 1.5 hours on the ground. He was approximately 1.1 hours into his return flight, turning base for landing, when the engine lost power. He performed a forced landing to a large parking lot and impacted the fence on its perimeter during landing roll. The airplane's right wing lift strut was bent, and the right wing's leading edge was wrinkled and bent. No fuel was found in the airplane's fuel tanks.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.