What happened
While returning from a round-robin flight, the pilot notified air traffic control that the engine had quit. The aircraft crashed approximately 2FL5 miles short of its destination airport. The pilot, who was the sole occupant, was not injured. At the time of the event, the ambient temperature was approximately 27 degrees above standard.
The investigation
An examination of the wreckage revealed that the aircraft contained less than the unusable amount of fuel. Based on the pilot's account of the sequence of events, and noting that climb performance and fuel leaning procedures were performed properly, fuel calculations determined the flight could have been completed with approximately 1.3 gallons of fuel remaining, though this amount was short of the required fuel reserves.