- Date
- January 7, 1983, 15:00 local (23:00 UTC)
- Place
- 2 Mi East Mina, NV
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N25334Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19830107000569A
- Case key
- 23887
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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 aircraft made a forced landing on a dirt road, collided with some rocks and nosed over. The engine had failed because of fuel exhaustion. The pilot said he refueled the previous day but did not physically check the fuel the day of the accident. The aircraft had flown about 3 hours on the accident day before the engine stopped.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N25334
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2071835
- Airframe hours
- 1,856
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Larry D. Rule
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 1982 · 19 hours before
- Departed
- L15 · Las Vegas, NV
- Destination
- HTH · Hawthorne, NV
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
- 46
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,521 total · 1,521 in this make and model · 1,500 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 10 °F
- Observed at
- 3
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.