- Date
- August 19, 1988, 16:15 local (22:15 UTC)
- Place
- Leadville, CO
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N93538Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 2, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880819034639A
- Case key
- 17529
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student plt was lost during a solo cross country instructional flight. After landing and refueling at Leadville, Colorado, he attempted to fly through a mountain pass towards his destination. He climbed the acft to 12,000 and tried to continue the climb. The engine began to run rough and the plt elected to make a precautionary landing beside a dirt road. The plt said he stalled the acft about 5 ft AGL to reduce the speed. The acft touched down in high vegetation and nosed over. The fuselage was broken aft of the cabin. A post accident inspection of the engine by an NTSB investigator failed to reveal any evidence of pre-accident failure or deficiency. The elevation of the crash site was 11,000 ft MSL.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N93538
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285511
- Airframe hours
- 4,588
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- N.American Inst. Of Aviation
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 2, 1988 · 42 hours before
- Departed
- LXV · Leadville, CO
- Destination
- COS · Colorado Spring, CO
- 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
- 21
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 179 total · 95 as pilot in command · 129 in the last 90 days · 41 in the last 30 days · 6 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.