- Date
- September 30, 1984, 18:50 local (23:50 UTC)
- Place
- Houston, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N64902Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840930052509A
- Case key
- 21480
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Analysis
Student plt departed on supervised solo cross-country flt to specific destination and return. Instead, plt landed at unimproved field without required prior operator approval and embarked his wife as a passenger for a local flight. On return from local flt, a poor landing approach necessitated a go-around. During the go-around, fuel exhaustion occurred. Acft collided with a fence during subsequent forced landing.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N64902
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281468
- Airframe hours
- 2,748
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Ray'S Flying Serv
- Registered owner
- Kathleen H. Lupher
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · September 6, 1984
- Departed
- LCH · Lake Charles, LA
- Destination
- T17 · Houston, TX
- Airport
- Flying Acres, runway 27, 2,600 × 83 ft, grass/turf
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 25
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 42 total · 28 in this make and model · 15 as pilot in command · 18 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 39 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IAH, 12 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
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