- Date
- November 14, 1989, 18:00 local (Nov 15, 1989, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Norman, OK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N9258UCessna 150M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19891114045279A
- Case key
- 23076
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
The pilot inadvertently became lost and disoriented and delayed in obtaining help from the flight service station, which resulted in fuel exhaustion.
Analysis
The student pilot was on a solo cross country flight when he became lost. He tried for some time to relocate himself, then called a fss for assistance. The fss guided him back to the departure area. However, the aircraft ran out of fuel and the plt landed one mile north of the airport in an oil field pipe yard.
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.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9258U
- Reported as
- Cessna 150M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 150-78208
- Airframe hours
- 3,750
- Engine
- Continental O-200, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Airman Flight School, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 28, 1989 · 66 hours before
- Destination
- RUS · Tulsa, OK
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- OUN
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
- 27
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 30 total · 30 in this make and model · 13 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- OKC, 11 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.