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Subject: Re: First Solo - Emergency Landing
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In article <#eVIA7bA#GA.302@ntawwabp.compuserve.com>, jjvp*nospan*@hotmail.com 
says...
>
>Found the article on the emergency landing. It is not quite like the radio
>said. Here it is:
>
>LOS ANGELES, Updated 6:20 p.m. October 26, 1998 --
>
>    A small airplane made a rush-hour landing on the southbound Ventura
>Freeway Monday evening.
>The two-seat Cessna 152 trainer plane made the emergency landing at Tampa
>Avenue in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, reported CBS 2 News.
>
>    The lone student pilot, Elliot Moriarity, managed to land the plane
>without damaging the plane or any cars on the freeway.
>
>According to CBS 2 News' Jason Carroll, Moriarity started his trip in Van
>Nuys and was supposed to got to Santa Inez onto Santa Barbara then back to
>Van Nuys but about 7000 feet up, ran into some trouble.
>
>"I was reading the map and I actually got lost," Moriarity told Carroll.
>"Half an hour of getting lost and by the time I found my way back on track,
>that half an hour had consumed just enough fuel for me not to be able to
>come back.
>
>"I tell you one thing, this is not something to be proud of, but it's very
>fortunate to have made it (back) okay."
>
>There were no reports of injuries.
>
>Police will continute to investigate why Moriarity ran out of gas and if he
>should be cited.
>
>Two of the eastbound lanes on the freeway will remain closed until
>authorities can determine how to get the plane off the freeway.
>
>
>
>--
>remove *nospan* from e-mail address
>Julio Vega wrote in message <#zJMqYbA#GA.294@ntawwabp.compuserve.com>...
>>I just heard on the radio this morning about a student pilot on his/her
>>first solo had ran out of fuel and ended up landing in a highway. I believe
>>it was somewhere in California, not sure though. Anyone has heard about it?
>>Comments?
>>
>>    My question is how can the CFI send him up on a first solo without
>fuel?
>>
>>Julio
>>PP-ASEL
>>
>>--
>>remove *nospan* from e-mail address
>>
>>
>
>


I think that the news reporter got confused.

This sounds like it was his first solo cross country flight, in which case
he really screwed up!  

When doing a cross country you are supposed to make
sure that you have enought fuel on board to complete the flight, plus a
reserve.  A 152 has about 6 hours of fuel on board, if I remember, so he
must have been lost for a long time, or 'missed something' during the
preflight!

Besides, if he was that lost, he should have called for help

