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First officer reported aircraft diverted to alternate airport and landed with less than minimum fuel onboard.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1670219 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201907 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | BFF.Airport |
| State Reference | NE |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Dusk |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | B737 Undifferentiated or Other Model |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 121 |
| Flight Phase | Final Approach |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | First Officer Pilot Flying |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Multiengine Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 157 Flight Crew Total 2070 Flight Crew Type 2070 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence Inflight Event / Encounter Fuel Issue |
Narrative:
Held on STAR due to weather going into ZZZ. Once vectored off and assigned different STAR we were notified that there were micro burst alerts at ZZZ and it would be at least 40 minutes for landing. Not having the fuel to continue to hold we opted to divert to bff where we would land with 5;500 pounds of fuel. Approximately 60 miles out from the field we were informed that we would be holding due to volume of aircraft diverting to bff. We informed the controller of our situation and ultimately declared minimum fuel when the time came. The issue we faced was that at least 2 out of the 5 aircraft going into bff were also in a negative fuel state and aircraft were not canceling IFR quickly enough at the uncontrolled field to allow a constant flow of landings. We were ultimately vectored onto approach and landed uneventfully with 3;400-3600 pounds.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: First Officer reported aircraft diverted to alternate airport and landed with less than minimum fuel onboard.
Narrative: Held on STAR due to weather going into ZZZ. Once vectored off and assigned different STAR we were notified that there were micro burst alerts at ZZZ and it would be at least 40 minutes for landing. Not having the fuel to continue to hold we opted to divert to BFF where we would land with 5;500 LBS of fuel. Approximately 60 miles out from the field we were informed that we would be holding due to volume of aircraft diverting to BFF. We informed the Controller of our situation and ultimately declared minimum fuel when the time came. The issue we faced was that at least 2 out of the 5 aircraft going into BFF were also in a negative fuel state and aircraft were not canceling IFR quickly enough at the uncontrolled field to allow a constant flow of landings. We were ultimately vectored onto approach and landed uneventfully with 3;400-3600 LBS.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.