- Date
- April 1, 1989, 16:30 local (22:30 UTC)
- Place
- Bolivar, TN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6475QCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 22, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890401005169A
- Case key
- 8008
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to properly plan required fuel for this flight which resulting in fuel exhaustion and a forced landing in a field.
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 in the traffic pattern to Bolivar airport when the engine quit. The pilot had flown about 4.0 hours and estimated that he had about 6.4 gallons of fuel reserve for the flt. The wreckage examination failed to disclose any system malfunction or component failure. The aircraft collided with a tree during the landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6475Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 152852559
- Airframe hours
- 3,878
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Bolivar Aviation
- Registered owner
- Jimmy D. Manahan
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 29, 1989 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- M41 · Holy Spring, MS
- Destination
- M08 · Bolivar, TN
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- M08 · Hardeman County, runway 18, 4,000 × 50 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
- 28
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 191 total · 57 in this make and model · 41 in the last 90 days · 35 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.