- Date
- December 16, 1990, 14:24 local (19:24 UTC)
- Place
- Palmetto, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N67334Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19901216054309A
- Case key
- 32805
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Probable cause
Poor preflight planning by the pilot due to his failure to purchase fuel before departure resulting in the total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion. Contributing to the accident was the inaccurate fuel gauges.
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
During normal cruise flight, the engine quit due to fuel exhaustion. A forced landing was made in a field and the airplane nosed over. The student pilot stated that he was not told to purchase fuel. The manager of the flight school denied this. The pilot further stated the fuel quantity indicators were not indicating empty when the engine quit.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67334
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 152-81762
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Suncoast Aviation, Inc.
- Departed
- OBE · Okeechobee, FL
- Destination
- CLW · Clearwater, FL
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 48X · Manatee County
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
- 26
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 69 total · 40 in this make and model · 22 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- SRQ, 14 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 N67334 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.