- Date
- February 5, 1983, 14:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Greensboro, NC
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N3032VCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830205002859A
- Case key
- 6002
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The acft was damaged during a forced landing in a plowed field after the engine quit. The student pilot was on a solo cross-country and had landed once during the flight but did not refuel the acft. The student had increased his flight time on the 1st leg of the flight by getting lost. When he contacted his instructor before departure for his return leghe did not advise him of this deviation which depleted his fuel supply. The acft ran out of fuel 10 miles short of destination.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3032V
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15076361
- Airframe hours
- 3,200
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Fred A. Smith, Archer Fly. Cb.
- Registered owner
- Fred A. Smith
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 19, 1983 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- LBT · Lumberton, NC
- Destination
- INT · Winston-Salem, NC
- Airport
- GSO · Greensboro High Pt. Rgnl., runway 14, 6,380 × 150 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 29
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 35 total · 35 in this make and model · 13 as pilot in command · 32 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 36 °F, dew point 12 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GSO, 3 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.