- Date
- June 24, 1987, 05:15 local (09:15 UTC)
- Place
- Olyhant, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N35354Cessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed · report February 14, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19870624026369A
- Case key
- 30683
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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 cross country personal transportation flight arrived in the scranton, Pennsylvania area for a planned refueling stop and encountered heavy fog conditions. Six attempts to land were made, but were aborted. An attempt to land at another airport was also aborted. Being out of fuel the pilot decided to make an emergency landing on a road and crashed in a wooded area.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N35354
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17256729
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Joseph Shaheen
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 1, 1987
- Departed
- Cumberland, MD
- Destination
- Dover, NH
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
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 154 total · 154 in this make and model · 97 as pilot in command · 50 in the last 90 days · 8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.