- Date
- April 12, 1990, 21:40 local (Apr 13, 1990, 02:40 UTC)
- Place
- Romeoville, IL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9694BCessna 172RG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Status
- Completed · report September 15, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900412010149A
- Case key
- 14654
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Probable cause
The failure of the instructor to correct a loss of directional control during a landing roll in a timely manner.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The accident airplane nosed over during a night landing. The airplane was substantially damaged, although neither of the two persons aboard the airplane were injured. The certified flight instructor pilot in command was giving an airplane checkout to a private pilot when the accident occurred. The private pilot had just touched down after doing a no landing light approach. During the rollout the airplane started veering to the left of the runway centerline. The instructor attempted to assist the pilot in maintaining directional control of the airplane. During these attempts at control the airplane veered into the soft ground on the left side of the runway and nosed over.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9694B
- Reported as
- Cessna 172RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172RG0973
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-F1A6, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Andrew & Mary Aviation, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- DPA · West Chicago, IL
- Airport
- LOT · Lewis Univ., runway 27, 3,000 × 48 ft, asphalt
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
- 24
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 2,080 total · 37 in this make and model · 1,288 as pilot in command · 125 in the last 90 days · 45 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night/bright
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.