# Incident 20121209027859I: Cessna 172S, Vero Beach, FL, December 9, 2012

- Type: FAA incident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: December 9, 2012, 13:05 local time
- Place: Vero Beach, FL
- Airport: Vero Beach Municipal
- Damage: No damage
- Phase of flight: Landing: Rollout
- Operating rules: Pilot school (Part 141)
- Location: 27.6556° N, 80.4180° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at VERO BEACH RGNL (VRB), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=27.6556&lon=-80.4180&mi=10
- Aircraft: N447ER, registered now (https://openairdocs.org/aircraft/N447ER) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Cessna 172S (registry code 2072439, https://openairdocs.org/model/cessna-172s) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Lycoming IO-360-L2A (registry code 41597, https://openairdocs.org/engine/lycoming-io-360-l2a) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: CESSNA 172S
- Reported engine: LYCOMING IO-360-L2A
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 0
- Other injuries: 0
- Pilot certificates: Student
- Pilot flight hours: 97 total, 97 in this make and model, 16 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20121209027859I

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

STUDENT PILOT ON SOLO TRAINING FLIGHT. AIRCRAFT MADE A NORMAL LANDING RUNWAY 11 AT KVRB. ON ROLL OUT PILOT ATTEMPTED A TURN OFF AT TAXIWAY F2. AIRCRAFT GROUND SPEED WAS EXCESSIVE AND AIRCRAFT DEPARTED TAXIWAY TO THE LEFT HIT 3 TAXI LIGHTS CONTINUED ACROSS TAXIWAY F HITTING 2 MORE TAXI LIGHTS. PILOT RECOVERED RETURNING TO TAXIWAY F WHERE HE PROCEEDED TO THE TERMINAL RAMP. STUDENT PILOT THEN CONTACT OPERATIONS AT EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY (NX4S).

## Other reports on N447ER (1)

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.

- [Incident 20201014016499I](https://openairdocs.org/incident/20201014016499I), Oct 14, 2020: Cessna 172S (N447ER), West Palm Beach, FL, Minor damage. Around 9:15 am as the aircraft was climbing through 1300 ft, 7MILES southwest of F45 airport, there was the sound of a loud bang. The flight instructor stated…

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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