- Date
- March 7, 2025, 13:50 local (18:50 UTC)
- Place
- Romeo, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7550GCessna 172L
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: 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
- 20250307002339A
- Case key
- 199818
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll. Contributing to the accident was the soft, wet grass.
Findings · 3
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 the airplane touched down, with full flaps, about 75-80 miles per hour. About 100 ft after touching down, the airplane veered left into the wet grass and mud. The airplane subsequently nosed over and came to rest inverted, which resulted in substantial damage to both wings and the vertical stabilizer. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7550G
- Reported as
- Cessna 172L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17259250
- Built
- 1970
- Airframe hours
- 796.4
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Oakland Flight Training
- Registered owner
- 7550g LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 31, 2024 · 96.3 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- D98 · Romeo State, runway 36, 4,003 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Electronic multifunction display, 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
- 25
- Injuries
- Minor
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 25.8 total · 25.8 in this make and model · 20.3 in the last 90 days · 7.4 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 9 knots, gusting 14
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.79 inHg
- Observed at
- KPTK, 21 nm away
- METAR
- KPTK 071853Z 27009G14KT 10SM BKN070 BKN095 OVC150 04/M08 A2979 RMK AO2 SLP098 T00391078
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 29, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.7 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.