- Date
- February 26, 1992, 18:19 local (Feb 27, 1992, 00:19 UTC)
- Place
- Mc Alester, OK
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N5499RCessna 172F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 23, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920226004109A
- Case key
- 18446
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Probable cause
Inadvertent stall. A factor was a total power loss due to fuel exhaustion.
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
During a daytime student pilot solo cross country, the pilot became disoriented, flew along a highway, and eventually requested and received vectors to the airport. During the VFR approach the airplane was too high and as the pilot initiated the go around there was a total power loss due to fuel exhaustion. A witness reported that the airplane impacted the terrain nose down and then went inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5499R
- Reported as
- Cessna 172F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17253069
- Airframe hours
- 3,656
- Engine
- Continental O-300D, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Cac, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Cac, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 11, 1991 · 92 hours before
- Departed
- PRX · Paris, TX
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- MLC · Mc Alester Regional, runway 1, 5,602 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- 54
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 68 total · 59 in this make and model · 14 in the last 90 days · 11 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 250° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 57 °F, dew point 28 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.