ERA15LA166 · Hawker Beechcraft Corp G36
Associated Packaging Hawker Beechcraft Corp G36 · Accident: fuel exhaustion en route
From Marco Island Executive Airport (MKY) to Ocala International Airport - Jim Taylor Field (OCF)
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA15LA166
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Hawker Beechcraft Corp G36
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 36
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N936B
- Operator
- Associated Packaging
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Marco Island Executive Airport (MKY), Marco Island, FLTo Ocala International Airport - Jim Taylor Field (OCF), Ocala, FL
- Aircraft age
- About 8 years (built 2007)
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- En route · cruise
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Fuel exhaustion
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Task performance
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
While on an instrument flight rules flight in visual meteorological conditions, about 20 miles from the destination airport, rhe pilot requested radar vectors to the destination airport, then advised the air traffic controller that that there was a problem with the engine and asked for radar vectors to a closer airport. The airplane subsequently crashed in the yard of a residence about a mile from the closer airport; the airfram was substantiall damaged during the impact. During recovery of the airplane from the accident site, there was no evidence of fuel spillage from the one compromised fuel tank; about 7 to 8 total gallons of fuel were recovered from the other three fuel tanks. Postaccident examination revealed no evidence of preimpact mechanical malfunction or failure of any airframe or engine components that would have precluded normal operation. Postaccident fuel consumption calculations based on fuel receipts and GPS data showed that the airplane had likely consumed all but the limited fuel that was recovered. Given this information, it is likely that there was insufficient fuel onboard for the flight and the pilot exhausted the airplane's usable fuel supply, which resulted in the subsequent total loss of engine power and a forced landing.
Probable cause
The pilot's inadequate fuel planning, which resulted in fuel exhaustion and a total loss of engine power.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA15LA166
- Event ID
- 20150324X92037
- Case number
- ERA15LA166
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 3052559e2e9adf47ca3a69f61279e8ae111d716e2f6155e506e01b5ee175b7bf; retrieved 2026-09-16T02:10:47.562Z.