- Date
- October 7, 1992, 13:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Denali, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N8048FCessna 150F
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- FAA report
- 19921007041419A
- Case key
- 5846
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Probable cause
The inadequate preflight planning and preparation by the student pilot, the student pilot's continued flight into known adverse weather and the pilot's failure to maintain directional control on the roadway landing. Factors relating to the accident were: the weather obscuration, inadequate student training in cross country planning and weather avoidance by the instructor, the terrain (roadway) selected for forced landing, and the snowbank bordering the landing area.
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 on a solo cross country encountered IMC weather with visibility, obscured with 1/4 mile in snow near mount mckinley. The pilot stated that he had 2 hours flight time experience in 90 days and that he was flying on a student cross country solo endorsement. He said his preflight planning was a weather briefing at gulkana, but he did not file a flight plan. Flight visibility reduced and the pilot initiated an emergency descent and precautionary landing on a roadway. Directional control was not maintained and the aircraft nosed over in a snow bank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8048F
- Reported as
- Cessna 150F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 150-64148
- Airframe hours
- 2,101
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Bjarke J. Bennedsen
- Registered owner
- Bjarke J. Bennedsen
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 15, 1992 · 105 hours before
- Departed
- GKN · Gulkana, AK
- Destination
- FAI · Fairbanks, AK
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
- 25
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 59 total · 59 in this make and model · 38 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 7 knots
- Temperature
- 30 °F, dew point 28 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.