- Date
- October 24, 2024, 08:50 local (14:50 UTC)
- Place
- Falcon, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N62740Cessna 172P
- 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
- FAA report
- 20241024015039A
- Case key
- 195376
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 NTSB’s determination of the probable cause, and any contributing factors.
The student pilot’s failure to maintain aircraft control and the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action during takeoff, which resulted in a collision with a taxiway sign.
Findings · 4
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings.
Analysis
The flight instructor reported that his student was performing a simulated soft-field takeoff from a paved runway. During the takeoff roll, about 25 to 30 knots, the airplane veered left of runway centerline and began to liftoff. The student overcorrected to the right, the airplane bounced, and exited the right side of the runway. The flight instructor directed the student to reduce the power to idle as the airplane struck a taxiway sign. The flight instructor then took over the flight controls and landed the airplane back on the runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the aft fuselage. The instructor reported that there were no preimpact mechanical failures or malfunctions that would have precluded normal operation.
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
- N62740
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17275331
- Built
- 1981
- Airframe hours
- 2,990.2
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A4M, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Doomac LLC DBA
- Registered owner
- Doomac LLC DBA
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 11, 2024
- Departed
- FLY · Colorado Springs, CO
- Destination
- FLY · Colorado Springs, CO
- Airport
- FLY · Meadow Lake Airport, runway 33, 6,001 × 60 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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 31
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 27, 2024
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 846.4 total · 99.5 in this make and model · 775.4 as pilot in command · 138.9 in the last 90 days · 48.1 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 65
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 162.3 total · 79.8 in this make and model · 26.7 as pilot in command · 24.4 in the last 90 days · 6.2 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 280° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 61 °F, dew point 23 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- KFLY
- METAR
- METAR KFLY 241455Z AUTO 28008KT 10SM CLR 16/M05 A3004 RMK AO2 T01611054=
Docket · 4
The files NTSB released with the investigation on February 21, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 6.7 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.
Other investigations on N62740 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.