- Date
- April 28, 1988, 16:10 local (21:10 UTC)
- Place
- Lonsdale, MN
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N67338Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 13, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 13941
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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
The student pilot was on his first solo flight outside the airport traffic area and was practicing maneuvers prescribed by his flight instructor including slow flight and stall type maneuvers. The aircraft experienced a loss of control, followed by an uncontrolled descent into the ground.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67338
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281766
- Airframe hours
- 961
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Asi Aero Services, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 19, 1988 · 10 hours before
- Departed
- FCM · Eden Prairie, MN
- Destination
- FCM
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
- 16
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 34 total · 20 in this make and model · 4 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FCM, 22 nm away
Other investigations on N67338 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.