- Date
- February 2, 1993, 20:30 local (Feb 3, 1993, 01:30 UTC)
- Place
- Summerville, SC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N757ACCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report November 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930202001419A
- Case key
- 8726
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Probable cause
The poor preflight 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 planned flight was to be a round trip from Summerville, south carolina to st. augustine, Florida and return. The aircraft departed Summerville with 24.5 gallons of fuel. The pilot purchased 6 gallons of fuel in st. augustine for the return trip. Total flight time for the round trip was 4.7 hours. The Cessna 152 information manual shows the aircraft endurance with 30.5 gallons of fuel at 65 per cent power to be 4.5 hours.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N757AC
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15279577
- Airframe hours
- 5,210
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Brown Enterprises, Inc., doing business as Carolina Aviation
- Registered owner
- Brown Enterprises, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 5, 1993 · 67 hours before
- Departed
- SGJ · St. Augustine, FL
- 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
- 29
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 175 total · 50 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 40° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 36 °F, dew point 9 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- CHS, 15 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.