- Date
- May 23, 1992, 13:37 local (18:37 UTC)
- Place
- Seale, AL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N49449Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 12, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920523016229A
- Case key
- 8507
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Probable cause
A loss of engine power for undetermined reasons. A factor was the right seat pilot's selection of unsuitable terrain for the forced landing.
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 private pilot had just leveled off the aiplane on the reurn leg of a cross country flight. As she began to lean the mixture, the engine RPM went from 2400 to about 500. Unable to maintain altitude, she set up for a forced landing. The right seat passenger (a commercial pilot) attempted the forced landing due to his higher experience level. Upon landing, the aircraft collided with a fence and a large dirt bank. An examination of the wreckage revealled that there was adequeate fuel on board the aicraft at the time of the accident. The engine was test run on the airframe after the inspection of the accident site revealed tht there were numerous obstruction-free areas where a forced landing could have beensuccessfully completed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N49449
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281276
- Airframe hours
- 7,090
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Atlanta Navy Flying Club
- Registered owner
- Hogue, L. Lynn
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 11, 1992 · 14 hours before
- Departed
- EUF · Eufaula, AL
- Destination
- MGE · Marietta, GA
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- 34
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 276 total · 125 in this make and model · 219 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 45 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CSG, 18 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.