Here.
A Cirrus. They had all the gear, yet they still did it.
However:
I recall, from my PPL training, taking off with fuel which I was uncomfortable with, following "fuel on board determination" procedures I was even less happy with, like reading previous flight durations off the "tech log". I got on board because I would just let the instructor do the forced landing and let him take the crap as it hits the fan. But, it seems, the instructors where I was never actually ran out of fuel because they knew exactly how far they could push it. It was their customers who did it instead, occassionally spectacularly
!http://www.sarffs.co.uk/incidents/g-omar3-s.jpg!
What is odd is that it happens even if accurate fuel metering is provided. I thought that US insurers demanded type specific training. In this case there was an instructor on board, but presumably he must have had training.
