- Date
- April 9, 1984, 11:10 local (16:10 UTC)
- Place
- Leonardtown, MD
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N3859CCessna 180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 35534
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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 acft made a forced landing about 1 mile sw of an added stopping point. The plt noted a lower than planned gs and thought he should add a stop for fuel. During the flt he had encountered icing and because of climbs and descents to avoid wx for about an hour and a half, the carburetor heat was used which enriched the mixture. After the accident the acft was found to contain about 3 gallons of fuel. Two gallons in the left tank and 0NE gallon in the right tank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3859C
- Reported as
- Cessna 180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31007
- Airframe hours
- 1,438
- Engine
- Continental O-470-A, 225 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Robert A. Fritz
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 10, 1984 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- AHN · Athens, GA
- Destination
- WWD · Wildwood, NJ
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- 2W6 · St. Mary'S Co.
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
- 40
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,824 total · 1,344 in this make and model · 1,769 as pilot in command · 34 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg