- Date
- March 8, 1992, 17:20 local (22:20 UTC)
- Place
- Lawrenceville, GA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N67772Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 16, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920308006699A
- Case key
- 8567
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Probable cause
Loss of engine power for undetermined reasons.
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 instructor had been maneuvering the airplane for about 15 minutes with a prospective student. He stated that the engine coughed & quit. Restart procedures were not successful & a forced landing was made, during which the airplane nosed over. 14 gallons of fuel were recovered from the airplane. The engine examination revealed no mechanical malfunctions. However, four of the spark plugs were found to be lead fouled.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67772
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282010
- Airframe hours
- 5,087
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Aviation Training Consultants
- Registered owner
- American East Airways
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 9, 1992 · 81 hours before
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
- 21
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 660 total · 175 in this make and model · 485 as pilot in command · 224 in the last 90 days · 70 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PDK, 20 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.