- Date
- February 4, 1993, 13:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Ruskin, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N714YLCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 10, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930204001649A
- Case key
- 33223
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Probable cause
The failure of the pilot-in-command to monitor fuel quantity resulting in an engine failure 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 student pilot flew about 3.4 hours on a solo cross country flight. The engine failed due to fuel exhaustion and he executed a forced landing to a field. During the landing roll the airplane nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N714YL
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15279537
- Airframe hours
- 5,073
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Aero Club Intl. Inc.
- Registered owner
- Aero Club Intl. Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 2, 1993 · 4 hours before
- Departed
- PHK · Pahokee, FL
- Destination
- VNC · Venice, 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
- 43
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 92 total · 29 in this make and model · 15 as pilot in command · 29 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 12 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 6,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TPA, 23 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.