- Date
- April 9, 2012, 11:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Lee's Summit, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N25212Cessna 152
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 28, 2012
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20120409007609A
- Case key
- 83629
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 student pilot’s loss of directional control while 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 conducting the second landing of his first solo flight. After touchdown, the airplane began to veer off the runway. The pilot attempted to correct; however, the airplane exited the runway surface, entered a ditch, nosed over, and came to rest inverted. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall. The student pilot reported no mechanical problems with the airplane prior to the accident.
Factual narrative
The student pilot was conducting the second landing of his first solo flight. After touchdown, the pilot was preparing to perform a touch and go when the airplane began to veer off the runway. The pilot attempted to correct; however, the airplane exited the runway surface, entered a ditch, nosed over, and came to rest inverted. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the airframe firewall. The student pilot reported no mechanical problems with the airplane prior to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N25212
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280531
- Airframe hours
- 12,000
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 125 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- P & K Aviation Inc
- Registered owner
- P & K Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 1, 2011
- Departed
- LXT · Lee's Summit, MO
- Destination
- LXT · Lee's Summit, MO
- Airport
- LXT · Lee's Summit Muni Airport, runway 18, 4,016 × 75 ft, concrete
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
- 38
- Injuries
- None
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 21 total · 21 in this make and model · 12 in the last 90 days · 5 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 21, 2012, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.9 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.