- Date
- August 21, 1992, 22:45 local (Aug 22, 1992, 06:45 UTC)
- Place
- Chicken, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N60725Cessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report June 21, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19920821034719A
- Case key
- 5791
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Probable cause
The pilot's selection of unsuitable terrain. Contributing factors were the pilot inadvertently became lost/disoriented, her lack of total expereince, her lack of familiarity with the geographical area, the poor lighting condition (dusk), and the weather condition (rain).
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 student pilot said that during the return leg of a cross country flight, she became disoriented, then because of deteriorating weather and oncoming darkness, decided to land on a river gravel bar. During the landing roll the airplane hit a log and nosed over. The pilot said because of the poor light conditions and a light rain, her selection of a better landing area was hampered.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N60725
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15070527
- Airframe hours
- 2,926
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Barbara M. Bolanos
- Registered owner
- Barbara M. Bolanos
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 4, 1992 · 49 hours before
- Departed
- CHP · Circle Hot Spr, AK
- Destination
- FAI · Fairbanks, AK
- 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
- 31
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 38 total · 38 in this make and model · 14 as pilot in command · 38 in the last 90 days · 29 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,500 ft broken
- 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.
Other investigations on N60725 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.