- Date
- December 16, 1988, 12:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Lyme, CT
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N63136Cessna 150
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 25, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881216060459A
- Case key
- 36352
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Probable cause
Improper planning; the student pilot became lost and ran out of fuel. During the landing he misjudged distance, altitude and airspeed and overran the field colliding with trees.
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 pilot was on a solo cross country. According to the student, due to improper in-flight planning and decisions, he inadvertently became lost. He flew over two controlled aprts and did not land because he did not know the proper radio frequencies. Shortly thereafter, a loss of power was experienced due to fuel exhaustion. During the forced landing, the aircraft landed long in an open field and collided with trees.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N63136
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15077128
- Engine
- Continental O-200-A, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Air Charter Express, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Air Charter Express Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- Plymouth, MA
- Destination
- Pittsfield, MA
- 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
- 20
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 45 total · 45 in this make and model · 45 in the last 90 days · 24 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 18 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.