- Date
- September 12, 1991, 15:50 local (20:50 UTC)
- Place
- Stillwater, OK
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N93151Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910912039759A
- Case key
- 18135
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Probable cause
Power loss due to fuel exhaustion and the pilot's failure to refuel. A factor was: the rough uneven 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
The pilot was on the last leg of a Stillwater-clinton-guthrie-Stillwater, OK, cross country flight (233 miles) when the engine lost power. During the ensuing forced landing, the airplane overturned. No fuel stains were noted beneath the airplane. Records showed the airplane had flown 1.2 hours prior to the student using it for 3.1 hours. The airplane had standard fuel tanks (25.5 gallons usable). This equates to 5.7 gph. According to the Cessna 152 pilot's operating handbook, if 70% engine power is used at a pressure altitude of 4000 feet MSL with an outside ambient air temperature 20 deg above standard, the airplane would have a true airspeed of 102 KIAS and an average fuel consumption of 5.7 gallons per hour.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N93151
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285420
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Stillwater Flight Center, Inc.
- Departed
- GOK · Guthrie, OK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- SWO · Stillwater Municipal
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 20
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 76 total · 71 in this make and model · 30 as pilot in command · 13 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- 170° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
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 N93151 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.