- Date
- January 29, 2021, 16:25 local (21:25 UTC)
- Place
- Clare, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N22101Cessna 172
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: 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
- Central Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration, Grand Rapids FSDO
- FAA report
- 20210129000389A
- Case key
- 102582
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 pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing that resulted in a runway excursion and impact with terrain.
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 reported that while landing following a solo cross-country flight, the airplane touched down about 500 feet beyond the runway threshold and slightly left of the runway centerline. As he continued the landing rollout, the airplane “drifted” left, and the left main landing gear caught the runway edge. The airplane then veered left off the runway, nosed over and came to rest inverted. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer, rudder, left wing, left wing strut, and fuselage. The student pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N22101
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (M)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17264055
- Built
- 1974
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Slipstream Aviation LLC
- Registered owner
- Propwash Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 6, 2020 · 2,871 hours before
- Departed
- SLH · Cheboygan, MI
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 48D · Clare Municipal Airport, runway 22, 3,500 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- 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
- 54
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 85 total · 85 in this make and model · 68 in the last 90 days · 21 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.35 inHg
- Observed at
- MOP, 12 nm away
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 31, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.1 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.