Accident · 2001-08-16

What the record says

Event date

2001-08-16

Event type

Accident

Highest injury level

No injuries

Aircraft

Cessna 152 (N69120)

Operating rule

Part 91

Operator

Orlando Flight Training Operator named in NTSB report

Operated by (per NTSB report)

Orlando Flight Training, Inc.

Probable cause

The poor in-flight planning decision by the student pilot for his failure to turn around to avoid low ceilings resulting in a precautionary landing in a field. A contributing factor in the accident was the pilot's lack of total experience. A finding in the investigation was the pilot's intentional flight into instrument meteorologiocal conditions (IMC) on 2 separate occasions.

Flight crew

Flight-crew details for this event aren't in the NTSB database extract we hold (its coverage starts with 2008 events) — a gap in our data, not an absence of crew.