- Date
- September 18, 1987, 16:36 local (20:36 UTC)
- Place
- Plant City, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N67896Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 11, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 31966
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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 student plt stated the acft was cruising at 3000 ft, when the eng lost pwr. She selected a fld & made an emerg lndg. Drg the lndg roll, the acft went thru a barbed wire fence, hit a ditch, nosed over & came to rest inverted. The acft had flown a total of 5.2 hrs since it had been refueled. The normal flt time of a Cessna 152 with long range fuel tanks was aprx 5.5 hours. The student had planned for a fuel consumption of 4.8 gph; actual consumption was aprx 7 gph. A post crash exam of the acft revealed some fuel had leaked fm the lower corner of the rgt fuel tank & at the fuel quantity sending unit in the top of the tank, but the amount of leakage was not determined.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67896
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282082
- Airframe hours
- 3,702
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Sunshine Flight, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 14, 1987 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- ISM · Kissimmee, FL
- Destination
- SPG · St.Petersburg, FL
- 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
- 25
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 32 total · 32 in this make and model · 10 as pilot in command · 22 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PIE, 40 nm away