- Date
- December 17, 1988, 16:15 local (21:15 UTC)
- Place
- Stacyville, ME
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N6558PCessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report November 24, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881217054649A
- Case key
- 36353
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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 pilot became lost during a cross country flt. The flight was continued until the acft ran out of fuel. The aircraft collided with trees during an emergency landing and nosed over. The plt told the state police at the acc site that the acft had run out of fuel.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6558P
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Linda G. Davis
- Registered owner
- Valley Airlines/Roland Martin
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility
- Departed
- BGR · Bangor, ME
- Destination
- WVL · Waterville, ME
- 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
- 35
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 56 total · 49 in this make and model · 12 as pilot in command · 37 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.