- Date
- June 13, 2024, 15:30 local (20:30 UTC)
- Place
- Ada, OK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8483LCessna 172I
- 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
- Case key
- 194472
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Probable cause
The student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing resulting in a runway excursion and impact with a sign.
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 reported that during landing the airplane ballooned and the right wing dipped. She said that she overcorrected, and the airplane went to the left side of the runway and struck a sign resulting in substantial damage to the airplane’s fuselage. She reported that there were no mechanical failures or malfunctions that contributed to the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8483L
- Reported as
- Cessna 172I
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17256683
- Built
- 1968
- Airframe hours
- 3,200.3
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 hp, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Chickasha Wings Inc
- Registered owner
- Chickasha Wings Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 2, 2024
- Departed
- CHK · Chickasha, OK
- Destination
- CHK · Chickasha, OK
- Airport
- ADH · Ada Rgnl, runway 18/36, 6,203 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Electronic flight bag or handheld device
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
- 28
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 24 total · 24 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 11 knots, gusting 14
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.96 inHg
- Observed at
- KADH
- METAR
- KADH 132035Z AUTO 15011G14KT 7SM HZ CLR 33/22 A2996 RMK AO2
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 12, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.8 MB in all.
Other investigations on N8483L · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.