# NTSB Accident CHI01LA054
> **Cessna 152** · 2000-12-27 · Sturtevant, WI, USA · NONE
## Event
- **NTSB number:** CHI01LA054
- **Event ID:** 20010105X00015
- **Type:** Accident
- **Date:** 2000-12-27
- **Location:** Sturtevant, WI, USA
- **Coordinates:** 42.700706, -87.890739
## Injuries
- **Highest injury:** NONE
- **Fatal:** 0
- **Serious:** 0
- **Minor:** 0
- **Uninjured:** 1
- **Total aboard:** 1
## Aircraft
- **Make:** Cessna
- **Model:** 152
- **Registration:** N757DX
- **FAR Part:** 091
- **Engines:** 1
- **Damage:** SUBS
## Conditions
- **Light:** DAYL
- **Weather:** VMC
## Probable cause

The unsuitable terrain for landing selected by the student pilot, the inadequate initial training by the flight instructor, and the flight instructor's decision to send the student pilot on a solo flight in known adverse weather conditions.  Factors to the accident were the snow showers, the student pilot becoming lost, the student pilot not using the pitot heat, the snow covered terrain, the precautionary landing performed by the student pilot, and the student pilot's lack of experience.

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