- Date
- September 14, 1990, 19:30 local (Sep 15, 1990, 00:30 UTC)
- Place
- Eau Claire, WI
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N67758Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900914039819A
- Case key
- 14776
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Probable cause
Fuel exhaustion. Contributing factor was the unsuitable terrain.
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
After about four hours of cross country flight the engine failed. An emergency ldg was attepted on a soft farm field which resulted in a collapsed nose gear and a nose over. Post accident investigation revealed the fuel tanks to be empty of usable fuel.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67758
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282000
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Gamco Rnc
- Departed
- LOT · Lockport, IL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- NONE
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
- 47
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 120 total · 87 in this make and model · 62 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- EAU, 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.