- Date
- May 16, 1992, 15:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Manchester, GA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4867HCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920516015179A
- Case key
- 8603
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Probable cause
The inadequate in-flight planning by the pilot.
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 flight departed orlando, Florida at about 1200 EDT. The passenger stated that the pilot elected to bypass their original destination and continue to pine mountain, Georgia. Upon arriving in the pine mountain area, they could not find the airport. The passenger stated that after looking for the airport for approximately thirty minutes, the aircraft fuel exhausted, and the pilot was forced to attempt an emergency landing at about 1530 EDT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4867H
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283990
- Airframe hours
- 6,637
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Volunteer Flight Training
- Registered owner
- Volunteer Flight Training
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 8, 1992 · 96 hours before
- Departed
- ORL · Orlando, FL
- Destination
- PIM · Pine Mountain, GA
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 100 total · 76 as pilot in command · 32 in the last 90 days · 29 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,700 ft broken
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CSG, 25 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.