- Date
- November 12, 2022, 17:26 local (23:26 UTC)
- Place
- Olathe, KS
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N5258YCessna 172
- Defining event
- Initial climb: Birdstrike
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- 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 - Kansas City FSDO
- FAA report
- 20221112022529A
- Case key
- 106281
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Probable cause
The inflight collision with multiple geese during initial climb.
Findings · 1
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 flight instructor and his student were conducting an instructional flight in night visual meteorological conditions and in the airport traffic pattern when the airplane collided with multiple geese during initial climb. The flight instructor made an uneventful landing following the bird strike. The airplane’s right-wing leading edge and main spar were substantially damaged during the bird strike.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5258Y
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (S)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172S9141
- Built
- 2002
- Airframe hours
- 9,758.9
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-L2A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- T&C Aviation Enterprises Inc, doing business as Air Associates of Kansas
- Registered owner
- Christiansen Aviation LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 2, 2022 · 6.1 hours before
- Departed
- OJC · Olathe, KS
- Airport
- OJC · Johnson County Executive Airport, runway 36, 4,097 × 75 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 25
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 6, 2022
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 753 total · 733 in this make and model · 644 as pilot in command · 150 in the last 90 days · 70 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 54
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 18.5 total · 18.5 in this make and model · 6.8 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 0.8 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 330° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,700 ft broken
- Temperature
- 28 °F, dew point 16 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.30 inHg
- Observed at
- OJC
- METAR
- SPECI KOJC 122227Z 33009KT 10SM BKN027 M02/M09 A3030 RMK AO2 T10221089=
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 20, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.2 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.
Other investigations on N5258Y · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.