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Incident · Minor damage

FAA incident report · Cessna 140 · Milanville, PA · May 25, 1993

Date
May 25, 1993 · 08:45 local
Place
Milanville, PA
Phase of flight
Fcd/Prec Ldg From Cruise
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Minor damage
Aircraft
N2487V
Reported as
Cessna 140
People aboard
1
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
478 total175 in this make and model15 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Pilot departed without checking fuel. Fuel exhaustion in flight. Forced landing in a plowed field.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT DEPARTED WITHOUT CHECKING FUEL. FUEL EXHAUSTION IN FLIGHT. FORCED LANDING IN A PLOWED FIELD.