- Date
- June 17, 1984, 09:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Burns, OR
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N49853Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840617024989A
- Case key
- 39938
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Analysis
During flt over a mountainous area, the plt became lost & called a flt service station. Subsequently, he was located & given vectors to the Burns arpt. However, the eng lost power from fuel exhaustion & the plt made a forced landing about 2 from the arpt. During the landing, the nose gear sank in soft terrain & collapsed.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N49853
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281359
- Airframe hours
- 1,166
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Sam Kimble
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- PUW · Pullman, WA
- Destination
- BKE · Baker, OR
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 34
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 175 total · 100 in this make and model · 92 as pilot in command · 5 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 40 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 50 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.