ERA11WA252 · Reims-Cessna F-150
Aero Club of Rimini Reims-Cessna F-150 · Incident: loss of engine power (total) en route
From Federico Fellini International Airport (LIPR) to Venice-Lido Giovanni Nicelli Airfield (LIPV)
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Event
- NTSB case
- ERA11WA252
- 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
- Incident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- 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
- Not recorded
Reims-Cessna F-150
- Aircraft type
- Reims Cessna F-150
- 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
- I-NOLV
- Operator
- Aero Club of Rimini
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route Narrative disagrees
- From Federico Fellini International Airport (LIPR), ReminiTo Venice-Lido Giovanni Nicelli Airfield (LIPV), Venice
- 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
- Non-U.S., Non-Commercial
- 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
- En route · cruise
- Defining eventThe 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 (total)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- None
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On March 25, 2011, about 1200 universal coordinated time, a Reims-Cessna F-150 airplane, Italian registration I-NOLV, had a reported engine failure while in cruise flight. The pilot decided to land on the shoreline in the vicinity of Sottomarina di Chioggia, Italy. No damage to the airplane was reported. The pilot and passenger were not injured. The flight had departed Frederico Fellini International Airport (LIPR), Rimini, Italy with an intended destination of San Nicolo (LIPV), Venice, Italy.
This incident investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Agenzia Nazionale per la Sicurezza del Volo (ANSV) of Italy. Any further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Agenzia Nazionale per la Sicurezza del Volo Via A. Benigni, 53-00156 00156 Rome – Italy Telephone: +39 06 82078240 Fax: +39 06 8273672
This report is for informational purposes and contains only information released by the Government of Italy.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA11WA252
- Event ID
- 20110419X33223
- Case number
- ERA11WA252
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
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: coordinates, damage. 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: c8c1695a4e7dc1b74d2693ac4a6d6ebf9fef7d9d232d00dab313a47bc511e324; retrieved 2026-09-15T16:04:44.990Z.