- Date
- January 14, 1993, 17:00 local (22:00 UTC)
- Place
- Salisbury, NC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N25865Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report November 19, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930114001579A
- Case key
- 8723
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Probable cause
The pilot became lost and exhausted the airplane fuel supply.
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 pilot had departed the 1st stop of a two stop cross country flight. She discovered after about 30 minutes that she was off course. Course deviations were made looking for a recognizable landmark, without success. A grass strip was located with two trailers. After landing, no one was located in the trailers. A passing truck driver, on a nearby highway, was stopped to ask directions. She took off again but was still unable to locate landmarks she knew. Assistance was then requested from charlotte tower, who vectored her toward Salisbury. She entered the landing pattern at Salisbury, maneuvering to avoid another airplane in the pattern. As the airplane was turned onto the base leg, power was added to slow the descent rate & the engine quit. A forced landing was made in a field. The airplane hit a dirt berm during the landing roll.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N25865
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280827
- Airframe hours
- 3,892
- Engine
- Continental O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Mcclure Aircraft, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Mcclure Aircraft, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 24, 1992 · 55 hours before
- Departed
- NONE · Concord, NC
- Destination
- 5N4 · Lincolnton, NC
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
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 106 total · 88 in this make and model · 106 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 10° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 23 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- RVQ, 1 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.