- Date
- August 21, 1985, 11:50 local (16:50 UTC)
- Place
- Rocklake, ND
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- CGZSQCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 16753
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
In flight encounter with weather
Weather condition - cloudsFactor
Flight into known adverse weather - initiatedCause
Weather condition - haze/smokeFactor
Became lost/disoriented - inadvertentCause
Loss of control - on ground/water
Terrain condition - dirt bank/rising embankmentFactor
Object - vehicleFactor
Nose over
Terrain condition - ditch
Analysis
The student plt got lost during her 1st solo x-country flt. She subsequently attempted a lng on a gravel road but swerved the a/c off the road to avoid an oncoming car & the a/c received substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- CGZSQ
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 152-80649
- Airframe hours
- 6,281
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Interlake Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 11, 1985 · 95 hours before
- Departed
- Gimli, Manitoba, OF
- Destination
- Gimli Mantoba, OF
- Flight plan
- VFR
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 37
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 45 total · 45 in this make and model · 11 as pilot in command · 11 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 68 °F