Cessna 152 N152SC

Summary

On 21 April 2000 at about 03:00 local time, a Cessna 152 registered N152SC was involved in an accident near Fresno, California, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

21 April 2000 at 03:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Fresno, California, United States

Coordinates

36.7994, -119.8698

Aircraft

Cessna 152

Registration

N152SC

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Hayward → Unknown

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Dusk

NTSB number

LAX00LA165

Nobody was injured.

Fuel exhaustion during cruise flight due to the student pilot becoming disoriented and lost.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

During a solo instructional flight, the student pilot's airplane experienced a total loss of engine power. The pilot made a forced landing in a parking lot and collided with a trailer. The student pilot, whose flight experience consisted of a total of 28 hours, of which 4 hours were as pilot-in-command, initiated the planned 1-hour-long local area flight that was supposed to be performed within a 25-mile radius of the departure airport, as authorized by his flight instructor. The student became disoriented and confused regarding his direction of flight and began flying east instead of west. Upon flying for 3.25 hours, and traveling about 117 miles east of the departure airport, fuel exhaustion occurred.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.