- Date
- August 11, 1991, 20:15 local (Aug 12, 1991, 00:15 UTC)
- Place
- Bear Mountain, NY
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N67393Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report May 27, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910811033199A
- Case key
- 36986
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Probable cause
The pilot's improper preflight and planning, which resulted in fuel exhaustion and a forced landing in water.
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 had been airborne about three hours, when the engine began to run roughly and quit. He made a forced landing on a river. The FAA found approximately 1/2 gallon of fuel in each tank. The pilot had a total flight time of about 150 hours.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67393
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281809
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Control Arrow, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Control Arrow, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- POU · Poughkeepsie, NY
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
- 26
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 150 total · 150 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 280° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.