# Incident 20081119852229I: Cessna 172M, Aurora, CO, November 19, 2008

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: November 19, 2008, 11:45 local time
- Place: Aurora, CO
- Airport: Buckley Afb
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Cruise/Level Flight
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 39.7294° N, 104.8319° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs: center of Aurora, CO, within about 7 miles (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=39.7294&lon=-104.8319&mi=10
- Aircraft: N12685, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N12685-2009-09-21) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 172M (registry code 2072418, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172m) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-320 series (registry code 41508, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-320-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172M
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Student
- Pilot flight hours: 0 total, 0 in this make and model, 0 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20081119852229I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) STUDENT PILOT ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^, A NIGERIAN CITIZEN, WAS TRAINING FOR HIS PRIVATE PILOT'S LICENSE WITH MCAIR AVIATION, BASED AT ROCKY MOUNTAIN METRO AIRPORT, COC, (BJC).  HE WAS ON A SOLO CROSS-COUNTRY FLIGHT FROM BJC TO FOR MORGAN (FMM) AIRPORT, CO.  THE FLIGHT WAS PLANNED TO GO NORTH OVER GLL VOR AND THEN TO FMM TO AVOID THE DENVER CLASS B AIRSPACE.  WHEN APPROACHING FMM, PILOT OBTAINED LANDING WEATHER FROM THE FMM AWOS AND FOUND THE CROSSWIND TO BE OUT OF HIS LIMITS.  SO HE DECIDED TO RETURN TO BJC, AND INSTEAD OF RETRACING HIS COURSE, HE PROCEDED DIRECT TO BJC USING HIS GPS, WHICH TOOK HIM THROUGH THE CLASS B AIRSPACE.  WHEN HE SAW DENVER AIRPORT, HE BECAME DISORIENTED AND AS HE PROCEEDED WEST, HE BECAME LOST AND CONFUSED.  HE SAW A BIG RUNWAY - BUCKLEY AFB (BKF) AND LANDED THERE WITHOUT TALKING TO ANY GROUND AGENCY ON THE RADIO.  HIS INSTRUCTOR, ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^, WAS NOTIFIED, DROVE OVER TO BKF AND RETURNED THE AIRCRAFT TO BJC.

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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