# NTSB Accident ANC14LA038
> **AERONCA 15AC** · 2014-06-06 · Talkeetna, AK, USA · NONE
## Event
- **NTSB number:** ANC14LA038
- **Event ID:** 20140606X55628
- **Type:** Accident
- **Date:** 2014-06-06
- **Location:** Talkeetna, AK, USA
- **Coordinates:** 62.517223, -150.945281
## Injuries
- **Highest injury:** NONE
- **Fatal:** 0
- **Serious:** 0
- **Minor:** 0
- **Uninjured:** 1
- **Total aboard:** 1
## Aircraft
- **Make:** AERONCA
- **Model:** 15AC
- **Registration:** N1301H
- **FAR Part:** 091
- **Engines:** 1
- **Damage:** SUBS
## Conditions
- **Light:** DAYL
- **Weather:** VMC
## Probable cause

Maintenance personnel’s failure to perform required fuel system tests to ensure that the airplane met its original type certification basis after modifying the fuel system and the Federal Aviation Administration’s improper approval of the fuel tank modification via the field approval process during which it did not ensure that the required fuel system tests were performed, which led to the pilot’s inability to determine the airplane’s actual amount of usable and unusable fuel and the subsequent loss of engine power due to fuel starvation.

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