- Date
- September 15, 2021, 07:45 local (12:45 UTC)
- Place
- Council Bluffs, IA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N767CGCessna 172
- Defining event
- Landing: 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
- Flight Standards District Office
- FAA report
- 20210915015779A
- Case key
- 103918
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Probable cause
The NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
The student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during a touch and go landing.
Findings · 2
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings.
Analysis
The student pilot reported that while performing a touch and go landing, the airplane drifted to the left edge of the runway. The student pilot advanced the throttle to full power, but he was unable to maintain directional control of the airplane. The airplane became airborne momentarily, but subsequently descended and impacted terrain on both sides of the runway before coming to a stop. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the forward fuselage. The student pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operations.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N767CG
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17269309
- Built
- 1977
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4M, 180 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Mindy Limited LLC
- Registered owner
- Mindy Limited LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- CBF · Council Bluffs, IA
- Destination
- CBF · Council Bluffs, IA
- Airport
- CBF · Council Bluffs Muni, runway 14/32, 3,650 × 60 ft, concrete
- 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
- 50
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 26 total · 26 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 26 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 55 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- KCBF
- METAR
- KCBF 151235Z AUTO 14006KT 8SM CLR 13/13 A3004 RMK AO2
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on November 16, 2021, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.0 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.