- Date
- May 1, 2021, 11:20 local (21:20 UTC)
- Place
- Lanai City, HI
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3929Cessna 172P
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Alaska Regional Office
- Parties
- FAA FSDO (OPS)
- FAA report
- 20210501004839A
- Case key
- 103025
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The solo student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing in crosswind conditions, which resulted in a runway excursion and a nose-over.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The solo student pilot reported that, after an uneventful cross-country flight, she arrived at her destination airport with the intent of conducting touch-and-go landings. During the landing flare the airplane encountered a gust of wind, drifted left, and the left main tire contacted the runway’s surface. Subsequently, the airplane settled onto the runway and veered to the left, she applied rudder inputs to correct for the veer to no avail. The airplane then exited the left side of the runway, the nose gear collapsed, and the airplane nosed over sustaining substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer, rudder, and right-wing lift strut. The student pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3929
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17276061
- Built
- 1984
- Airframe hours
- 3,738.8
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Lani Lea Sky Tours LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 23, 2021 · -33 hours before
- Departed
- PHNL · Honolulu, HI
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- LNY · Lanai, runway 03/21, 5,001 × 150 ft, grass/turf
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 26
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 63 total · 63 in this make and model · 3 as pilot in command · 6 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.14 inHg
- Observed at
- PHNY
- METAR
- PHNY 012156Z AUTO 30007KT 10SM 23/22 A3014 RMK AO2 SLP187 T02330217 $
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 12, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.6 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.