- Date
- April 12, 2024, 15:55 local (20:55 UTC)
- Place
- Monroe, LA · Grassy area adjacent to runway 32
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9845LCessna 172P
- 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
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20240412004909A
- Case key
- 194085
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Probable cause
The student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
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 stated that the airplane landed to the right of the runway centerline. As he steered the airplane back to the centerline the airplane veered hard left, so he applied right rudder pedal and overcorrected. The airplane exited the side of the runway and nosed over in a grassy area adjacent to the runway. The airplane’s wings and vertical stabilizer sustained substantial damage. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures that would have precluded normal operation. He added that the accident could have been prevented with additional training in airplane directional control.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9845L
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17276634
- Built
- 1986
- Airframe hours
- 6,472
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4M, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Mcgee David
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 11, 2024 · 84 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- MLU · Monroe Regional Airport, runway 32, 6,301 × 150 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
- Pilot
- Age
- 38
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Unknown
- Last flight review
- March 25, 2024
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 47.5 total · 22.6 in this make and model · 1.6 as pilot in command · 12.1 in the last 90 days · 3.4 in the last 30 days · 0.4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 41 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.22 inHg
- Observed at
- KMLU, 1 nm away
- METAR
- KMLU 122053Z 32007KT 10SM CLR 26/05 A3022 RMK AO2 SLP231 T02560050 56016
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 18, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 14.7 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.