- Date
- March 24, 1990, 18:55 local (23:55 UTC)
- Place
- Hollidaysburg, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N62274Cessna CE-172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report September 21, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900324005299A
- Case key
- 36621
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Probable cause
Pilot factor in that he failed to ensure there was sufficient fuel on board to complete the flight. This resulted in an engine failure & subsequent forced landing.
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 received a preflight weather briefing prior to takeoff and using the winds aloft he calculated how long the flight would take to arrive at his destination and how much fuel would be needed. He checked the tanks visually. The pilot said when about 15 miles out from johnstown, the engine began to run rough and then it quit. An emergency landing was made in a grass field and the left wing contacted a tree rotating the aircraft about t 130 degrees to the left. Inspection of the aircraft revealed no fuel in the tanks and there were no leaks.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N62274
- Reported as
- Cessna CE-172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17275240
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Ferry · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Van Bortel Aircraft
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- LWM · Lawrence, MA
- Destination
- JST · Johnstown, PA
- Flight plan
- IFR
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
- 21
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,030 total · 361 in this make and model · 920 as pilot in command · 69 in the last 90 days · 35 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/dark
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.