- Date
- May 20, 1992, 10:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Moline, IL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N18244Beech 77
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 15, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920520017339A
- Case key
- 15454
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control.
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 student pilot received his solo endorsement the day before the accident after receiving 10.1 hrs of dual instruction; of which 2.3 hrs dealt with takeoffs and landings. He stated that during his fourth touch-and-go landing the airplane was blown off the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N18244
- Reported as
- Beech 77
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- WA 295
- Airframe hours
- 4,500
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 115 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Elliott Flying Service Inc
- Registered owner
- Elliott Flying Service Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 27, 1992 · 51 hours before
- Departed
- MLI
- Airport
- MLI · Quad City Airport, runway 5, 4,911 × 150 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
- 20
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 11 total · 11 in this make and model · 1 as pilot in command · 10 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 90° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MLI, 1 nm away
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 N18244 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.