Oyster Bay, L.I. Billy Joel's home town.
Rule #1: They're fuel tanks, not air tanks. Sounds like fuel starvation.
Cessna twins can have a complex fuel system, in that if you don't know what you're doing, you can end up dumping fuel overboard... and run out. Although based on the brevity of this flight, it sounds like he had very little fuel to start with.
He's lucky. Because there was no skill involved in this prang.
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