Fuel starvation

[2] All engine-powered modes of transport can be affected by fuel starvation, although the problem is most serious for aircraft in flight.

Ships are affected to the extent that without propulsion they cannot maneuver to avoid collisions or beaching.

Some aircraft have special operating limitations on steep climbs with low fuel due to this concern.

[4] Many incidents have happened on aircraft where fuel exhaustion or starvation played a role.

A partial list of these incidents follows: A number of aircraft have been abandoned by their crew (both intentionally and sometimes accidentally) when the aircraft has continued on its own until fuel exhaustion caused it to crash:

British Airways Flight 38 crash-landed at London Heathrow in 2008 after its fuel lines became clogged with ice crystals.
The forward fuselage section of Lady Be Good , a B-24 Liberator which crashed in the Libyan Desert after running out of fuel