- Date
- February 7, 2021, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- Urbana, OH
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N348RMCessna 172S
- 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
- FAA - Columbus FSDO
- FAA report
- 20210207001349A
- Case key
- 102623
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Probable cause
The student pilot’s loss of directional control during landing which resulted in an impact with a snowbank. The slippery runway condition contributed to the accident.
Findings · 3
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 he was 0n a solo cross-country flight and the takeoff, climb, and en route portions of the flight were uneventful. He expected to perform a touch-and-go landing at the accident airport. During the approach, he noticed that the runway had patchy snow on it. Upon landing the airplane veered to the left, which the student pilot believed was due to the unresponsiveness of the controls and the ice. He decided to change to a full stop landing and applied the brakes, but the airplane struck a snowbank on the left side of the runway, and it tipped forward and to the right. The airplane’s right wing was bent up at the tip resulting in substantial damage. The student pilot stated that there were no mechanical anomalies with the airplane that would have precluded normal operations. The airport manager confirmed that the runway had patchy compressed snow covering about 25% of the runway surface.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N348RM
- Reported as
- Cessna 172S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172S8936
- Built
- 2001
- Airframe hours
- 9,044
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-L2A, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Lunken Flight Training Center LLC
- Registered owner
- Lunken Flight Training Center LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 22, 2021 · 36 hours before
- Departed
- LUK · Cincinnati, OH
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- I74 · Grimes Fld, runway 02/20, 4,400 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Onboard weather, Stall warning system
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 17
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 48.6 total · 42.6 in this make and model · 5.4 as pilot in command · 11.5 in the last 90 days · 5.5 in the last 30 days · 1.2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 10 °F, dew point 3 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.16 inHg
- Observed at
- EDJ, 15 nm away
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 17, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 10.7 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.