Cessna 150 accident near Hohenwald, Tennessee, January 10, 2024

The NTSB's narrative final · quoted from the NTSB record

The student pilot was on a solo cross-country flight when the accident occurred. She noticed no irregularities during the preflight inspection, engine run-up, or climb out. About 80 nautical miles (nm) into the flight, while operating at 2,500 ft mean sea level, the engine began to run rough. The pilot moved the throttle and mixture to full, but the engine continued to progressively operate rougher with a subsequent decrease in engine rpm. Unable to maintain altitude, the pilot diverted to the nearest airport. While on final approach, the airplane was high and fast, and she did not believe there was enough altitude to complete a 180° turn to bleed off airspeed, so she continued the approach. The airplane landed long down the runway, exited the paved surface, and collided with a fence resulting in substantial damage to the wings and elevator. Postaccident examination and a test run of the engine did not reveal evidence of any preexisting anomalies or failures that would have prevented normal operation. The recorded temperature and dew point near the accident site were conducive to “serious icing” at cruise engine power settings. The pilot described the troubleshooting tasks she performed while trying to diagnose the reason for the loss of engine power, but did not report using carburetor heat. Based on this information, carburetor ice likely formed during the cruise portion of the flight, which resulted in a partial loss of engine power and a forced landing. During the approach, the pilot was high, fast, and landed long resulting in a runway excursion.

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Other NTSB records under N7UT the same tail number, which may have belonged to a different aircraft at the time