Fuel Starvation
| Fuel Starvation |
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| 05/18/1935 | Knowles Flying Service | Flint, Michigan | Negligence on the pilot for not replenishing his fuel supply before it got dangerously low. |
| 12/31/1935 | Imperial Airways | Alexandria, Egypt | Ran out of fuel. |
| 07/02/1937 | Lae, New Guinea | Purdue Res. Found. | The aircraft had to be flown higher than expected due to storms which used extra fuel. |
| 11/29/1938 | Off Point Reyes, Calif. | United Air Lines | Ran out of fuel forcing a ditching at sea. |
| 02/09/1943 | Gander, Newfoundland | British Overseas AW | Ran out of fuel. |
| 12/28/1946 | Michigan City, Michigan | American AL | Ran out of fuel for unknown reasons. |
| 01/05/1947 | Carmel, New Jersey | Nationwide Air Trans. | Near fuel exhaustion forced the crew to carry out an emergency landing. |
| 01/11/1947 | Lympne, England | BOAC | Ran out of fuel because of poor weather conditions encountered throughout the flight. |
| 01/07/1948 | Savannah, Georgia | Coastal Air Lines | The fuel valves were positioned so that both engines were supplied from only one tank. |
| 01/30/1948 | Near Bermuda | British So. Am. AW | Ran into strong head winds in the Atlantic and ran out of fuel. |
| 08/15/1949 | Lurga Point, Ireland | Transocean Air Lines | Ran out of fuel and ditched in the Atlantic. |
| 07/28/1950 | Porte Alegre, Brazil | Penair do Brasil | Ran out of fuel while in a holding pattern. |
| 04/30/1952 | Delhi, India | Deccan, AW | Fuel starvation after the plane banked to make a turn and the tank was almost empty. |
| 05/26/1952 | Atar, Mauritania | British Overseas AW | Became lost in the desert and ran out of fuel. |
| 06/19/1954 | Folkestone, England | Swissair | Ditched into the Atlantic Ocean after running out of fuel. |
| 12/22/1954 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | Johnson Flying Service | Ditched into the Monongahela River after running out of fuel. |
| 05/02/1970 | St. Croix, Virgin Islands | Antillian AL | Ran out of fuel and ditched into the Mediterranean Sea. |
| 12/05/1970 | Delhi, India | Jamair | The No. 2 engine failed on takeoff due to fuel starvation. |
| 02/01/1972 | Tegal, Indonesia | Penas | Due to a compass error the aircraft became lost and crashed due to fuel starvation. |
| 07/24/1973 | Honolulu, HI | Air Hawaii | Fuel starvation. Rear auxiliary tanks not serviced. |
| 08/11/1974 | Ouagadougou, Upper Volta | Air Mali | After being diverted and a navigation error the crew circled the wrong city. |
| 10/20/1977 | Gillsburg, Mississippi | L & J Company | A malfunction in the No.2 engine caused a higher than normal fuel consumption. |
| 12/02/1977 | Al Bayda, Lebanon | Balkan Bulgarian AL | Because of fog, the crew could not find the alternate airport and ran out of fuel. |
| 12/28/1978 | Portland, Oregon | United AL | Ran out of fuel while the crew was distracted with a landing gear problem. |
| 09/04/1982 | Rio Branco, Brazil | Cia Bras. de Tratores | Ran out of fuel on the third approach in poor weather. |
| 07/23/1983 | Gimli, Manitoba, Canada | Air Canada | Accidentally used pounds/liter for the specific gravity factor instead of kilograms/liter. |
| 09/03/1989 | Sao Jose do Xingu, Brazil | Varig | The crew flew in the wrong direction for two hours then ran out of fuel. |
| 01/25/1990 | Cove Neck, New York | Avianca | Put in series of holding patterns because of heavy traffic and ran out of fuel. |
| 09/11/1990 | Off Newfoundland, Canada | Faucett | Ran out of fuel and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. |
| 06/26/1991 | Sokotu, Nigeria | Okada Air | After circling for an hour, unable to locate the air field, the plane ran out of fuel. |
| 11/15/1993 | Kerman, Iran | Magistralnye Avialinii | Ran out of fuel while in a holding pattern. |
| 09/18/1994 | Tamanrasset, Algeria | Oriental AL | After circling for1 1/2 hours and aborting four landing attempts the plane ran out of fuel. |
| 09/26/1994 | Vanavera, Russia | Cheremshanka AL | After three landing attempts, the crew diverted to their alternate but ran out of fuel. |
| 09/11/1995 | Jalalabad, Afghanistan | Ariana Afghan AL | Ran out of fuel. |
| 10/31/1995 | Piedras Negras, Mexico | TACSA | Ran out of fuel trying to land in fog. |
| 04/05/1996 | Petropavlovsk, Russia | Krasnoyarskie AV | Crashed into a mountain after running out of fuel. |
| 01/13/1998 | Tor Kach, Pakistan | Ariana Afghan AL | Crashed into a mountain after being diverted to their alternate due to bad weather. |
| 03/24/2000 | Kadirana, Sri Lanka | OMSK | After 2 messages they were low on fuel, the plane crashed while attempting to land. |
| 08/12/2001 | Lajes, Terceira, Azores | Air Transat | Improperly installed part caused a fuel leak and the plane to run out of fuel. |
| 06/11/2002 | Winnipeg, Manitoba | Keystone Air Services | Ran out of fuel. |
| 11/11/2002 | Manila, Philippines | Laoag Int. Airlines | Failure of the pilot and co-pilot to check the fuel valves. |
| 08/13/2004 | Cincinnati, Ohio | Air Tacoma | Flightcrew's failure to monitor the fuel gauges and to recognize a fuel imbalance. |
| 08/06/2005 | Off Palermo, Italy | Tuninter | The maintenance crew incorrectly installed a fuel gauge for a ATR-42 on the ATR-72. |
| 11/28/2016 | La Union, Columbia | LAMIA Bolivia16 | Took off without enough fuel. |
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