- Date
- January 19, 1982, 12:45 local (17:45 UTC)
- Place
- Enfield, NH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N68292Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 19, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820119001359A
- Case key
- 70597
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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
While the student pilot was on a solo cross-country flight, the engine lost power and then ran intermittently. The power loss occurred while the plane was over a snow covered lake at 6500 ft MSL. The pilot elected to land on the lake. After touchdown, the gear caught in the snow and the aircraft flipped over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N68292
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282234
- Airframe hours
- 1,673
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Cashin Aviation
- Registered owner
- Sm Aero Corp.
- Departed
- Manchester, NH
- Destination
- Burlington, VT
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 25
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 25 total · 19 in this make and model · 12 as pilot in command · 9 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 30 knots
- Temperature
- 50 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.