- Date
- May 15, 1991, 19:39 local (23:39 UTC)
- Place
- Newtonville, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N94512Cessna 152 II
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 5, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910515016199A
- Case key
- 36927
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Probable cause
Pilot factor in that the student pilot delayed asking for assistance, after becoming lost until insufficient fuel was available to make an airport. This resulted in engine failure to fuel exhaustion and a subsequent emergency landing in rough terrain.
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 completing a solo cross country, when she became lost and disoriented. She attempted to determine her location for approximately 45 minutes without success. She contacted a flight service station by radio with about 15 minutes of fuel remaining. This was insufficient time to provide assistance and fuel exhaustion occurred. The pilot made an emergency forced landing in a field.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N94512
- Reported as
- Cessna 152 II
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15285701
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-N2C, 108 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Albert C. Lewis, doing business as Lewis Flying Service
- Registered owner
- Albert C. Lewis
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- ESN · Easton, MD
- Destination
- 17N · Cross Keys, NJ
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
- 17
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 70 total · 70 in this make and model · 9 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 77 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.