- Date
- October 8, 1992, 15:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Buford, GA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N62527Cessna 172P
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 21, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921008045379A
- Case key
- 8693
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Probable cause
Fuel exhaustion due to the pilot's inadequate inflight planning.
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 aircraft was on a cross country flight under instrument meteorological conditions. The pilot stated the he became concerned about his fuel status as a result of encountering head winds in excess of those used for planning the flight. During his attempts to land at alternate airports to refuel the aircraft, the aircraft ran out of fuel. During the forced landing roll, the aircraft struck a fence and received substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N62527
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17275293
- Airframe hours
- 4,123
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Paschket, Raymond J.
- Registered owner
- Paschket, Raymond J.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 20, 1993 · 115 hours before
- Departed
- CVG · Covington, KY
- Destination
- ATH · Athens, 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
- 48
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 461 total · 383 in this make and model · 318 as pilot in command · 23 in the last 90 days · 13 in the last 30 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 600 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 64 °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.