- Date
- July 24, 1989, 10:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Logan, UT
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N46260Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 9, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890724025139A
- Case key
- 17599
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Probable cause
Inadequate preflight and improper inflight planning/decision by the student, which resulted in fuel exhaustion from an inadequate supply of fuel, and the student's failure to maintain airspeed, while maneuvering, which resulted in an inadvertent stall/spin. A contributing factor was the student's lack of total experience.
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 plt took the acft on a flt without having it refueled & commenced to practice touch-&-go landings. Witnesses rprtd that after the acft took off from a touch-&-go, the eng lost power. The acft began turning, then it entered a steep spiraling descent & crashed. An investigation revealed the acft had flown two previous flts since it was last refueled. A post-acdnt exam revealed there was no fuel in the carburetor & only 'a cup or two' of fuel was drained from the tanks.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N46260
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283023
- Airframe hours
- 2,967
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Logan Air Service
- Registered owner
- Dan Jones & Janet Mangini
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Continuous airworthiness · July 21, 1989 · 9 hours before
- Departed
- LGU
- Destination
- LGU
- Airport
- LGU · Logan Cache, runway 35, 5,931 × 100 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
- 20
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 30 total · 30 in this make and model · 19 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.