ACFT ON CROSS COUNTRY RAN OUT OF FUEL AND LANDED IN FIELD. NO INJURIES BUT ACFT DESTROYED.

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LEFT BROWN (SDM) FIELD (SAN) AT APPROX XA50 TO PALOMAR (CRQ). LEFT PALOMAR WITH COPLT AT XB20 ON A PLEASURE FLT. NO FLT PLAN. BOTH PLT AND COPLT AGREED NOT TO FLY PAST 3 FLT HRS ON THE HOBBS METER FOR FUEL MGMNT PURPOSES. ROUTE OF FLT CEQ; RADAR FOLLOW TO THE LAX VFR CORRIDOR; BURBANK APCH. RADAR FOLLOW TO V485 DIRECT; FOLLOWS VOR DIRECT; PASO ROBLES VOR; DIRECT ON V25 TO SALINAS. DSNDING OUT OF 8500' FOR THE APCH INTO SALINAS; WE NOTICED THAT AN ENTIRE HR HAD SOMEHOW ELUDED US. REALIZING OUR MISTAKE; WE ASKED FOR A SPECIAL VFR CLRNC INTO SALINAS WHICH WAS NOW IFR. PERMISSION WAS GRANTED AND WE DSNDED TO 3500'. THE ENG STARTED TO COUGH; BUT WE ASSUMED IT WAS CARB ICE. AT 3300'; WE KNEW WE HAD RUN OUT OF GAS. THE TWR WAS NOTIFIED AND THEY ASKED FOR POS RPTS. WE WERE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE AREA AND WE ASSUMED BY THE CTLR'S COMMENTS THAT WE WERE JUST OFF THE S SIDE OF THE RWY. WE LOST 2500'; HOPING THE RWY WOULD MATERIALIZE. IT DID NOT. AT 800'; I TOOK CTL OF THE AIRPLANE FROM THE F/O AND PROCEEDED WITH AN EMER PROC AND LNDG. BOTH PLTS COMPLETELY LOST TRACK OF FUEL MGMNT. WE HAD BOTH DECIDED NOT TO FLY OVER 3 HRS IN FLT W/O REFUELING. WE HAD EXPERIENCED SOME PRETTY TOUGH TURB THAT LAST HR AND A HALF AND WHILE I WAS DOING PROGRESS RPTS; VOR TRACKING AND INTXNS; THE F/O WAS CONCENTRATING ON THE FLYING END OF IT. TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH; I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE INCIDENT EVER MATERIALIZED. I AM VERY CONSERVATIVE IN MY FLYING AND NEVER ENDANGER THE LIVES OF OTHERS OR TAKE CHANCES. THE F/O AND I ARE MYSTIFIED AS TO SUCH AN OCCURRENCE EVER HAPPENING. HOWEVER; IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT DESPITE THE FACT THAT WE SAID WE WERE NOT GOING TO FLY OVER 3 HRS; WE REPEATEDLY SAW THE GAS METERS RPTING PLENTY OF FUEL LEFT IN EACH TANK; ONE QUARTER TO BE EXACT. CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING. ACFT WAS LANDED IN FIELD 4 MI S OF SNS ARPT; TOTALED. NO INJURIES. DISMANTLED AND TRUCKED OUT OF FIELD. RPTR WAS REQUIRED TO TAKE AN FAA FLT CHK AND HAS HEARD NOTHING FURTHER FROM THE FAA. DSCNT WAS MADE CLR OF CLOUDS; VIS WAS REDUCED. RPTR BUILDING TIME ON EXTENDED CROSS COUNTRY AND LOST COMPLETE TRACK OF TIME.