- Date
- August 7, 1992, 23:50 local (Aug 8, 1992, 04:50 UTC)
- Place
- Nevada, TX
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N15576Piper PA-28-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920808029979A
- Case key
- 18551
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Probable cause
The PIL0T'S inadvertent stall of the airplane during the forced landing and his failure to refuel the airplane en route.
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
While on a night cross country, the airplane experienced a complete power loss due to fuel exhaustion. The airplane stalled in the flare during the forced landing and landed hard. The flight had been airborne four hours and five minutes.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N15576
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 28-7305090
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Dickey, Richard D.
- Registered owner
- Dickey, Richard D.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- CSQ · Creston, IA
- Destination
- F46 · Rockwall, TX
- 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
- 32
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 75 total · 50 in this make and model · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 210° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DAL, 40 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.