FTW99LA008 · Cessna 152
Cessna 152 · Accident: loss of engine power during initial climb
From 1F9 to an unrecorded destination
Event
- NTSB case
- FTW99LA008
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna 152
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N757XC
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From 1F9To not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Initial climb
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of engine power
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Reason for occurrence undetermined
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
During takeoff initial climb, at approximately 200 feet agl, the engine lost partial power. The pilot performed a forced landing into a nearby small field, and during the landing roll, the airplane impacted trees, which lined the edge of the field. Prior to the accident flight, the pilot had performed a cross-country flight during which the engine began running 'slightly rough.' The pilot continued to and landed at his destination airport. After landing he performed an engine run-up, during which he applied full power and leaned the mixture. After completing the run-up, 'the magnetos performed perfectly fine.' The pilot returned to his departure airport, and refueled the airplane. During the run-up, the pilot checked the magnetos, 'they were perfectly fine,' so he took off. The pilot then elected to perform a couple touch-and-go landings. The reason for the loss of engine power could not be determined.
Probable cause
The partial loss of engine power for undetermined reasons. A factor was the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record FTW99LA008
- Event ID
- 20001211X11258
- Case number
- FTW99LA008
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 1b7aa7f119209fab5a997e5cfe426f44ad3b052e3a68ee7dcee02c4c7b009fa0; retrieved 2026-09-21T20:40:34.817Z.