- Date
- June 23, 1984, 17:45 local (22:45 UTC)
- Place
- Giddings, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5215PCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840623029129A
- Case key
- 21382
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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.
Overrun
Preflight planning/preparation - inadequateCause
Became lost/disoriented - inadvertentFactor
Lack of total experience
Precautionary landing - performed
Anxiety/apprehension
Weather condition - tailwindFactor
Wrong runway - selectedCause
Proper touchdown point - not attainedCause
Aborted landing - not performed
On ground/water collision with object
Object - fence
Object - tree(s)
Analysis
The student plt on his first solo cross-country flight became lost. The plt landed to refuel but the facility was closed. He departed to refuel elsewhere and ran one fuel tank dry enroute. Upon reaching the second arpt, the plt performed a landing on rwy 35 and ran off the end into a fence and trees. The wind was reported southeasterly at 10 KTS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5215P
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15284895
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2O, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Andrew J. Howard
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 11R · Brenham, TX
- Airport
- 31R · Giddings Lee County, runway 35, 3,200 × 50 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 28
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 23 total · 23 in this make and model · 10 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 135° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 84 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.