The Plane That Ran Out Of Fuel With Plenty Of Fuel Onboard | Air Tahoma Flight 185

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This is the story of Air Tahoma flight 185. Flight 185 was a cargo plane carrying packages for DHL from Memphis Tennessee to Cincinnati Northern Kentucky international airport. On the 13th of august 2004 they were flying a convair 580, The convair 580 was an airplane from the 1950s and I was genuinely surprised to find out that Convair 580s were in service at least till 2019 with Air Chatham in New zealand.
On todays flight they were making a round trip between Memphis and Northern Kentucky international airport, the copilot was the pilot flying and the captain was the pilot monitoring. They departed Memphis at about 11:29 pm, the climb and cruise portions of the flight were uneventful.
We join the crew at 17 minutes past midnight, the crew talk, The captain says that he's going to balance out the fuel as he adjusts the planes fuel systems. They talk about the weight and balance of the plane, its 12:30 am the co pilot says “Weird”, the captain is busy with weight and balance paperwork and doesn't respond.
At 12:38 am the co pilot says “Something's messed up with this thing” the co pilot was referring to the plane's control wheel. He adds “Feels like I need a lot of force. It is pushing to the right for some reason. I don’t know why...I don’t know what's going on.” The captain does not respond. 12:43 am they were getting close to Cincinnati northern Kentucky international airport, they were at 4000 feet and the captains on the radio with Approach control, He says that they had the runway in sight. The controller cleared flight 185 for a visual approach onto runway 36R the controller added “Keep your speed up”, the captain acknowledged, The co pilot says ““What in the world is going on with this plane? “Sucker is acting so funny.” The captain reassures the first officer saying that they'd do a full control check once on the ground. The approach controller then handed them off to the tower controller.
The captain asks for their landing clearance from the tower controller and they are cleared in for runway 36R, as the plane passed through 3200 feet the speed of the plane began to fall. The first officer sounds the alarm again “I’m telling you, what is wrong with this plane? it is really funny. I got something all messed up here.” The captain says that they have an imbalance as he left the crossfeed open. The co pilot says “Were gonna flame out” , the captain asks the copilot to keep the power on. At 12:46 am the co pilot says “We’re losing power” Both their engines had flamed out, the plane began descending at about 900 fpm. The captain contacts ATC to let them know that they’re having issues, the controller asks if they needed emergency equipment at the runway the captain responds with “Nope”, no one ever heard from Air tahoma flight 185 ever again. Flight 185 had crashed 1.2 miles short of runway 36R. The co pilot was killed in the crash the captain survived.
If you’re a pilot or if you’re familiar with aviation in general you probably have a rough idea as to what happened, let's take a closer look to see what actually happened.
The investigators look at the plane, The plane was built in 1953 and had undergone several overhauls, with such an old plane they had to look at mechanical issues, but their search turned up nothing the plane was airworthy. The wreckage showed no signs of structural failure and they worked out that the cargo had not shifted during their landing attempt. The weather was not a factor and the plane had more than enough fuel to make it and then some. The investigators look at the crew next.