- Date
- October 17, 1989, 12:41 local (16:41 UTC)
- Place
- Immokalee, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N911SACessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 30, 1991
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891017065289A
- Case key
- 32594
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Probable cause
Improper planning/decision by the pilot, which resulted in fuel exhaustion. Factors related to the accident were: the pilot becoming lost or disoriented, and the tree(s) in the emergency landing area.
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
According to the plt, he became disoriented while on a flt from jacksonville, FL to fort myer, FL. He obtained assistance, but the acft lost power from fuel exhaustion before he reached an arpt. Subsequently, the acft collided with a tree during an emergency landing & was damaged. An investigation revealed that his estimated time en route was planned to be 3.3 hrs with 4 hrs of fuel on board. The power loss occurred after 3 hrs & 12 min of flt. Witnesses & fuel receipts showed that the acft had been flown about 1.5 hrs on the previous evening.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N911SA
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285247
- Airframe hours
- 5,239
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Shields Aviation Of Georgia, doing business as Air Academy
- Registered owner
- Shields Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 24, 1989 · 480 hours before
- Departed
- CRG · Jacksonville, FL
- Destination
- FMY · Fort Myers, 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
- 22
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 79 total · 8 in this make and model · 37 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FMY, 7 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.