- Date
- October 18, 1989, 20:30 local (Oct 19, 1989, 00:30 UTC)
- Place
- Kernersville, NC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N1155MCessna 210
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report June 16, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891018043899A
- Case key
- 8168
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Probable cause
Improper fuel consumption calculations by the pilot, which resulted in fuel exhaustion from lack of fuel. Adverse weather conditions were related to the accident.
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 plt had planned a 5 hr flt to elkin, NC. He estd the acft had 6.5 hrs of fuel on board. At elkin, he attempted to land from an NDB apch, but made a missed apch & diverted to greensboro, NC. He obtained vectors for an ILS 5 apch at greensboro, but the eng began losing power from fuel exhaustion about 8 mi from the arpt. Subsequently, it crashed into trees during a forced landing after about 5.5 hrs of flt.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1155M
- Reported as
- Cessna 210
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21061922
- Airframe hours
- 2,502
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-A, 285 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Fmp Co, doing business as Morrow Dry Co
- Registered owner
- Fmp Co
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Addison, TX
- Destination
- GSO · Elkin, NC
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- GSO · Piedmont Triad Intl, runway 5, 10,000 × 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
- 24
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 500 total · 50 in this make and model · 150 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Dusk
- Lowest ceiling
- 700 ft broken
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- GSO
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.