- Date
- July 2, 1988, 14:15 local (18:15 UTC)
- Place
- Marathon, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N25057Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 9, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880702024949A
- Case key
- 32203
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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.
Analysis
The student plt was on his 1st solo x-c flt. A portion of the flt included a 30 mi stretch over the Florida bay section of the gulf of Mexico. The flt carried no flotation gear. 5.2 hrs into the flt, the eng quit & a ditching was performed near a pleasure craft which the plt was certain had seen him ditch. The boat sailed away. The plt had gotten off a mayday just before ditching & was picked up by the coast guard shortly afterward. The acft was later raised & no usable fuel was found in the acft. The plt stated he had done some extra flying to get around tstrms & had apparently run out of fuel. He was approx 10 mi from his destination.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N25057
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280520
- Airframe hours
- 2,518
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Airline Aviation Academy
- Registered owner
- Gulf Leasing
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 24, 1988
- Departed
- FMY · Fort Myers, FL
- Destination
- MTH · Marathon, FL
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
- 34
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 38 total · 32 in this make and model · 18 as pilot in command · 38 in the last 90 days · 15 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- EYW, 25 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.
Other investigations on N25057 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.