- Date
- February 25, 1993, 15:15 local (20:15 UTC)
- Place
- Jackson, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N46460Cessna 172K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19930225004919A
- Case key
- 15673
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Probable cause
The 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 solo student pilot was practicing stop and go landings on an icy runway. During the rollout following the second landing, the airplane began to slide on the ice and weathervaned into the wind. The airplane slid off the right side of the runway and hit a snowbank.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N46460
- Reported as
- Cessna 172K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17257283
- Airframe hours
- 2,758
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Jackson Exec. Air Service
- Registered owner
- Dmr Aviation Incorporated
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 24, 1992 · 30 hours before
- Airport
- JXN · Jackson County-Reynolds, runway 6, 5,344 × 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
- 60
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 78 total · 30 in this make and model · 25 as pilot in command · 20 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 18 °F, dew point 5 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- JXN, 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.