- Date
- June 28, 2025, 13:07 local (18:07 UTC)
- Place
- Wichita, KS · Runway 19L
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N1591VCessna 172
- 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 Wichita FSDO
- FAA report
- 20250628008469A
- Case key
- 200447
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 the takeoff that resulted in a runway excursion.
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 planning to perform three takeoffs and three landings for his first solo flight. After completing the second landing, the student pilot applied full power for the takeoff. When the student pilot began to manipulate the flight controls for the takeoff, the airplane “abruptly pulled hard” toward the left. The student pilot then retarded the throttle and applied the brakes, and the airplane departed the runway to the left. The left main landing gear impacted a runway sign, and the landing gear collapsed. The airplane came to rest upright on a grass field near the runway. The student pilot was able to egress from the airplane without further incident. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left horizontal stabilizer. The student pilot reported there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airframe or the engine that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1591V
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (M)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17263685
- Built
- 1974
- Engine
- Lycoming Engines O-320-E2D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Aviation Academy LLC, doing business as Aviation Academy LLC
- Registered owner
- Aviation Academy LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · May 14, 2025
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- ICT · Wichita Dwight D Eisenhower Ntl, runway 01R/19L, 7,302 × 150 ft, concrete
- Equipment
- 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
- 30
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 33.2 total · 33.2 in this make and model · 0.6 as pilot in command · 33.2 in the last 90 days · 10.1 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 160° at 12 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 72 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.96 inHg
- Observed at
- KICT, 1 nm away
- METAR
- KICT 281753Z 16012KT 10SM SCT250 31/22 A2996 RMK AO2 SLP130 T03060222 10306 20211 58005 $
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 5, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 21.9 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.