- Date
- February 18, 1991, 14:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- St. Cloud, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N24913Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 25, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910218002549A
- Case key
- 32822
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Probable cause
Failure of the pilot to plan the flight and failure to obtain proper assistance from ATC after becoming lost, which resulted in total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion.
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 plt became disoriented on a local flt & landed at an unk arpt. He then determined his location & proceeded to return but became disoriented again. The eng lost total power due to fuel exhaustion & the plt landed in an open area. After touchdown, the acft nosed over. The acft was operated for 4.5 hrs since the last refueling & it was equipped with two VOR receivers.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N24913
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280447
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Brown'S Seaplane Base, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Brown, Jon K
- Departed
- X39 · Tampa, FL
- Destination
- GIF · Winter Haven, FL
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
- 63
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Single-engine sea
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 123 total · 97 in this make and model · 1 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,700 ft broken
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- ORL, 16 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.