# Incident 20251216020719I: Cessna 152, El Paso, TX, December 16, 2025

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: December 16, 2025, 10:13 local time
- Place: El Paso, TX
- Airport: El Paso International
- Damage: Minor damage
- Phase of flight: Takeoff: Climb Out
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 31.8073° N, 106.3764° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at EL PASO INTL (ELP), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=31.8073&lon=-106.3764&mi=10
- Aircraft: N48410, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N48410) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 152 (registry code 2071835, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-152) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming 0-235 series (registry code 41505, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-0-235-series) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 152
- Reported engine: LYCOMING 0-235 SERIES
- People aboard: 2
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Commercial pilot, flight instructor
- Pilot flight hours: 8,300 total
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20251216020719I

## Narrative

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

ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2025, AT ABOUT 1000, IN A CESSNA 152 AN EMERGENCY OFF AIRPORT LANDING WAS DECLARED DURING CLIMB OUT. IFR APPROACHES WERE BEING PRACTICED FOR CURRENCY WITH ANOTHER PILOT AND NO FLIGHT PLAN WAS FILED. NO DAMAGE TO AIRCRAFT, ENGINE SUFFERED A CATASTROPHIC FAILURE. PILOT IS A CFI AND FLIGHT ORIGINATED FROM ELP.

IFR APPROACHES WERE COMPLETED WITH ADDITIONAL PILOT, SHOT THE RUNWAY 22 ILS, AND THEN PROCEEDED TO DO THE DME ARC VOR APPROACH TO RUNWAY 26L. CLIMBED TO 6,000 FEET OR MORE WHEN IT WAS REALIZED THE CLIMB WAS NOT PERFORMING AS NORMAL. CHECKED THE ENGINE TEMPERATURES AND HAD NO OIL PRESSURE. AN EMERGENCY LANDING WAS MADE ON POE ROAD WHICH PARALLELS THE PIPELINE ON FT BLISS ARMY BASE.

AFTER CALLING THE EL PASO APPROACH CONTROLLER, THEY WERE ADVISED THAT THE AIRCRAFT HAD LANDED WITHOUT ANY DAMAGE TO THE AIRCRAFT.

THE AIRCRAFT WAS DISASSEMBLED AND MOVED TO THE EL PASO AIRPORT.

A LARGE CRACK WAS FOUND ON THE CRANK CASE, WHICH CAUSED THE OIL TO LEAK OUT OF THE ENGINE.               JRK

## Other reports on N48410 (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Accident 20190721015139A](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20190721015139A), Jul 21, 2019: Cessna 152 (N48410), Fredericksburg, TX, Substantial damage. On July 21, 2019 at 1240 CDT, aircraft bearing registration number N48410 departed from T82 in Fredericksburg, TX on a personal flight with one passenger on…

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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