- Date
- April 10, 1996, 14:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Lebanon, TN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7479GCessna 172K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 25, 1996
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19960410006769A
- Case key
- 3722
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Probable cause
the student pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The student pilot was making touch-and-go landings. During the accident landing, the airplane touched down 1500 feet past the threshold, and the airplane veered right. After the student applied braking to correct for the right drift, the airplane veered to the left, continued off the left side of the runway, collided with a ditch, and nosed over.
Factual narrative
On April 10, 1996 at 1400 central daylight time, a Cessna 172K, N7479G, nosed over during landing roll at Lebanon Municipal Airport, Lebanon, Tennessee. The aircraft was being operated by the student pilot under the provisions of Title14 CFR Part 91 and visual flight rules. No flight plan was filed for the local training flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident. The student pilot was not injured, and the airplane was substantially damaged. The flight departed Lebanon Municipal Airport at 1330.
According to a witness, the solo student had been conducting a series of touch and go landings. During the accident landing attempt, the airplane touched down 1500 feet past the threshold, and the airplane veered to the right. After the student pilot applied corrective rudder and braking, the airplane veered to the left. The airplane continued to the left and veered off the left side of the paved runway surface; the airplane collided with a ditch and nosed over. No mechanical problems with the airplane were reported by the student pilot.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7479G
- Reported as
- Cessna 172K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17259179
- Airframe hours
- 7,146
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4M, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- George N. Robertson
- Registered owner
- Lebanon Flying Club
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · August 30, 1995 · 213 hours before
- Departed
- M54 · TN
- Airport
- M54 · Lebanon Municipal, runway 1, 4,800 × 75 ft, asphalt
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
- Pilot
- Age
- 55
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 24 total · 24 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 19 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 59 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BNA, 25 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.