- Date
- January 6, 1990, 12:10 local (18:10 UTC)
- Place
- Glencoe, OK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N5414PCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 4, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900106000139A
- Case key
- 23091
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Probable cause
The power loss due to carburetor ice, which resulted from the pilot's failure to engage carburetor heat in a timely manner. A factor in this accident was the pilot's lack of total experience.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
During a solo session, a student pilot attempted to do a practice forced landing. Weather conditions were VMC; however, the temperature was 45 degrees fahrenheit and the dew point was 28 degrees fahrenheit. The pilot attempted recovery by advancing the throttle and applying carburetor heat simultaneously. Because of the late application of carburetor heat, icing formed and the recovery from the practice forced landing could not be accomplished. A forced landing was attempted to a road; however, vehicular traffic forced the pilot to change landing sites. The airplane contacted trees and descended out of control to ground impact. Conditions were consistent with serious icing potential at a glide power setting.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5414P
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 84939
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Stillwater Flight Center, Inc
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- SWO · Stillwater, OK
- Airport
- NONE
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 42
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 44 total · 44 in this make and model · 10 as pilot in command · 25 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 45 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Observed at
- WDG, 20 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.