- Date
- July 13, 2009, 09:03 local (14:03 UTC)
- Place
- Pine River, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N79908Cessna 172K
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 15, 2009
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- Case key
- 74272
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing.
Findings · 2
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 student pilot was attempting a full-stop landing during a solo flight. Upon touchdown, the airplane veered off the west side of the runway into a drainage ditch and flipped over. The airplane sustained wrinkling of the right wing and a bent wing spar resulting in substantial damage. The pilot was uninjured.
Factual narrative
The student pilot was attempting a full stop landing on runway 34 (3,000 feet by 75 feet, asphalt) during a solo flight. Upon touchdown, the airplane veered off the west side of the runway into a drainage ditch and flipped over. The airplane sustained wrinkling of the right wing and a bent wing spar resulting in substantial damage. The pilot was uninjured.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N79908
- Reported as
- Cessna 172K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17258241
- Airframe hours
- 3,564
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Air D Inc
- Registered owner
- Air D Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 9, 2009
- Departed
- 7Y3 · Backus, MN
- Destination
- PWC · Pine River, MN
- Airport
- PWC · Pine River Regional Airport, runway 34, 3,000 × 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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 23
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 12 total · 12 in this make and model · 11 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Observed at
- PWC
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 24, 2009, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 730 KB in all.