- Date
- May 22, 2023, 09:47 local (14:47 UTC)
- Place
- Kansas City, MO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N227XYPiper PA-28-181
- Defining event
- Takeoff: 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 KC FSDO
- FAA report
- 20230522007039A
- Case key
- 192224
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 failure to maintain directional control during takeoff.
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 performing his seventh solo takeoff, when the tower controller cleared him for takeoff and told him to expedite due to other traffic. He added full throttle and looked down to check his airspeed; however, when he looked back up to the runway the airplane was left of the runway centerline. The student pilot applied right rudder and the airplane veered to the right. He then removed the right rudder input and the airplane “darted” to the left, exited the runway, and impacted a ditch and a runway sign. The airplane came to rest in the grass alongside of the runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left and right wings. The student pilot reported no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N227XY
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-181
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 2881571
- Built
- 2022
- Airframe hours
- 652.3
- Engine
- Lycoming IO360-B4A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- ATP Flight School, doing business as N/A
- Registered owner
- Meridian Aircraft LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 8, 2023 · 60.6 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- MKC · Charles B Wheeler Downtown, runway 19, 6,827 × 150 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display, ADS-B, Stall warning system
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
- Pilot
- Age
- 36
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- May 22, 2023
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 43 total · 43 in this make and model · 43 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.10 inHg
- Observed at
- KMKC
- METAR
- METAR KMKC 221445Z 00000KT 10SM FEW055 20/13 A3010 RMK T02000130
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 7, 2023, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.3 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.