- Date
- August 1, 1983, 08:49 local (14:49 UTC)
- Place
- Sidney, NE
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N67585Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 33456
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Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student plt was on a solo x-country flt. As he approached Sidney, NE, he was unable to contact anyone on the radio & continued to the arpt at cruise alt. He descended while circling the arpt. Before reaching traffic pattern alt, he applied power, but the eng did not respond. The student declared an emergency & turned toward the arpt. He was unable to lose both airspeed & alt. When he forced the acft on the rwy, it bounced several times, then hit, nose & left wing low & was substantially damaged. According to student's instructor, the student had forgotten to enrich the mixture after descending, then panicked when he thought the eng failed. The temp & dew point were 81 & 57 deg, respectively. According to the icing probability charts, serious carburetor ice could occur in float carburetors at glide power. The use of carburetor heat was not verified.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N67585
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15281930
- Airframe hours
- 510
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- William E. White
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 22, 1982 · 64 hours before
- Departed
- CO12 · Brighton, CO
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- SNY · Sidney Muni, runway 12, 6,000 × 100 ft, concrete
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
- 16
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 50 total · 50 in this make and model · 11 as pilot in command · 35 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 57 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SNY