- Date
- January 4, 1992, 13:15 local (20:15 UTC)
- Place
- Falcon, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N774WSCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920104000179A
- Case key
- 18190
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Probable cause
Engine failure over unsuitable terrain due to fuel exhaustion. Factors were: pilot inexperience and becoming lost and disoriented.
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 a solo cross country training flight and became lost and disoriented. He flew by his intended destination and continued until the aircraft engine failed due to fuel exhaustion. A landing was attempted in a soft field and the aircraft nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N774WS
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 152799971
- Airframe hours
- 1,051
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Patrick Clayton
- Registered owner
- Dan Bauer/Precision Aircraft
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 31, 1991 · 6 hours before
- Departed
- BFF · Scottsbluff, NE
- Destination
- IV5 · Boulder, 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
- 37
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 67 total · 17 in this make and model · 19 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 190° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 99 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.