- Date
- July 5, 1985, 10:47 local (14:47 UTC)
- Place
- Hagerstown, MD
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N12740Cessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19850705034079A
- Case key
- 11183
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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 recently certificated instructor was performing touch and go landings with a paraplegic student, who used a hand control for rudder operation. On the third landings the acft veered to the right and the CFI took control of the acft. The student pilot released the hand control of the rudder and the CFI applied left rudder at this point. With no response from the acft. Full pwr was then added at the acft departed the right side of the rwy. As the acft was leaving the rwy to the right, the empennage collided with two taxiway signs and a light. The CFI regained control of the acft and brought it to a full stop.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N12740
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17262220
- Airframe hours
- 4,708
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Eagle Air Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 3, 1985 · 0 hours before
- Departed
- HGR · Hagerstown, MD
- Airport
- HGR · Hagrstwn/Wash County Reg., runway 27, 5,450 × 150 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
- 18
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 339 total · 74 in this make and model · 253 as pilot in command · 65 in the last 90 days · 45 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 4 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- HGR
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.