- Date
- December 27, 1987, 22:50 local (Dec 28, 1987, 03:50 UTC)
- Place
- Tallahassee, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N89126Cessna 152
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report February 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19871227075219A
- Case key
- 32120
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
En route to the destination during a cross country flt, the acft was diverted to an alternate arpt due to weather conditions below minimums. Unable to land at the alternate due to poor visibility the non-instrument rated plt requested vectors to the destination arpt & advised the controller that the acft was low on fuel. Three asr apchs were attempted each resulting in a missed apch because of poor visibility due to ground fog. The flt was then vectored to another arpt due to a report of better weather. Unable to land because of poor visibility due to ground fog the flt was attempted to return to the destination arpt when the eng quit due to fuel exhaustion. A forced landing was performed during which, the rt wing collided with a pole. The acft then touched down on a road, left it, travelled into a ditch, collided with a fence, then came to rest in an inverted position.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N89126
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282640
- Airframe hours
- 5,200
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Griffin, Michael J.
- Registered owner
- Griffin, Michael J
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 4, 1987
- Departed
- SGJ · St Augustine, FL
- Destination
- TLH · Tallahassee, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- NONE
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 21
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 205 total · 74 in this make and model · 157 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days · 23 in the last 30 days · 10 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 140° at 7 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- 200 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TLH, 12 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.
Other investigations on N89126 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.