- Date
- March 16, 1985, 14:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- South Hill, VA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N23231Cessna 150H
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 11167
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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
While on a solo cross country flight the student pilot became disorientated after about 60MIN of flt. He atmptd to call in the blind on guard. Freq. Both danville and roanok fss's responded to his calls but were unable to establish 2 way commo with the plt. In addition otr acft in the area also tried to talk to him with negative results. The acft eventually ran out of fuel and during the forced lndg the rt wing collided with a tree and the acft lndd hard in a plowed field.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N23231
- Reported as
- Cessna 150H
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15068811
- Airframe hours
- 13,678
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Shenandoah Aviation Serv. Inc.
- Registered owner
- Showalter Enterprises, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 19, 1984 · 688 hours before
- Departed
- GSO · Greensboro, NC
- Destination
- W78 · South Boston, VA
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- 5W2 · Mecklenburg-Brunswick Reg
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
- 33
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 40 total · 40 in this make and model · 12 as pilot in command · 8 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- DAN, 63 nm away