- Date
- May 24, 1989, 13:09 local (17:09 UTC)
- Place
- Fort Pierce, FL
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N714UQCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 18, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890524012779A
- Case key
- 32291
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Probable cause
Failure of the student pilot to maintain airspeed which resulted in an inadvertent stall. Contributing factors were: the weather conditions (smoke & haze), the student becoming lost, her lack of total experience, and her inability to understand ATC instructions after she became lost.
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
A japanese national/student plt became lost on her 1st flt outside the arpt traffic area. Tower & apch control personnel attempted to identify the acft on radar, but were unsuccessful. The plt flew northbound until the acft flew over an arpt, then she entered the traffic pattern to land. As she continued in the pattern, she saw another acft ahead on a short final apch. She made a 360 deg turn then contd the apch. After attempting to land behind the other acft, the student's acft stalled, entered a steep descent & crashed at midfield, about 250 ft left of the rwy. No preimpact failure or malfunction of the acft was rprtd. The student rprtd that she had gotten lost after encounteringsmoke & haze. The smoke was caused by an everglade's fire. The student did not speak english well & had difficulty communicating with ATC personnel after becoming lost.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N714UQ
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15279447
- Airframe hours
- 3,214
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Crest One Aviation, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 1, 1988 · 84 hours before
- Departed
- HWO · Hollywood, FL
- Airport
- FPR · St Lucie County Intl, runway 27, 5,000 × 150 ft, asphalt
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
- 62
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 69 total · 69 in this make and model · 4 as pilot in command · 66 in the last 90 days · 34 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 240° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 88 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FPR
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.