- Date
- November 10, 1989, 14:10 local (20:10 UTC)
- Place
- Cape Girardeau, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N47446Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 24, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891110044949A
- Case key
- 34911
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Probable cause
Poor planning by the pilot in not refueling enroute which resulted in 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 pilot said that the engine quit about 4 miles from the destination airport. An emergency landing was attempted which resulted in a collision with trees, a fence, then a nose over. Post accident inspection revealed the loss of power was a result of fuel exhaustion.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N47446
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15283227
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Aerial observation · Part 91
- Operator
- State Aerial Farm Stats, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- EVV · Evansville, IN
- Destination
- CGI · Cape Girardeau, MO
- Airport
- NONE
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
- 28
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 20,000 total · 1,500 in this make and model · 240 in the last 90 days · 80 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 8,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 55 °F
- Observed at
- CGI, 3 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.