- Date
- October 13, 1992, 15:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Hillsdale, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N69223Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921013041689A
- Case key
- 15606
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Probable cause
Inadequate preflight planning in not refueling the aircraft and a poorly planned forced landing 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 student pilot was on the return leg of a cross country flight when a loss of engine power occurred. He was eight miles west of an airport when the engine quit. The pilot attempted to make a forced landing on runway 09 which was 3801 feet long. The wind was 270 at 15 to 20 knots. The pilot was high and fast when trying to land at the airport. He aborted the attempt and tried to land in a field to the east of the airport, but was fast again. He pulled up a second time and made a turn to the right and made a hard landing in a field. Approximately one quart of fuel was in the left tank, and approximately one and one-half gallons of fuel was in the right wing. The pilot stated, '...I made the decision to not obtain fuel,' before he departed on his return leg of the flight.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N69223
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282568
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Branch County Aviation
- Registered owner
- Branch County Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- SKY · Sandusky, OH
- Destination
- D96 · Coldwater, MI
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- Y85 · Hillsdale Muni, runway 9, 3,801 × 75 ft, asphalt
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
- 38
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 42 total · 42 in this make and model · 5 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 15 knots, gusting 15
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 23 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- JXN, 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.
Other investigations on N69223 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.