- Date
- January 20, 2002, 14:50 local (21:50 UTC)
- Place
- St. George, UT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N7693MCessna 175
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 20, 2002
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- FAA-- Flight Standards District Office
- FAA report
- 20020120002319A
- Case key
- 54076
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain aircraft directional control during take off roll.
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 was performing touch-and-go landings on runway 16. The pilot said she had "no right rudder control" when she added power for take off. The airplane veered, departed the left side of the runway, and nosed down in a gravel area between the taxiway and runway. The nose gear separated from the airplane. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall and outboard left wingtip spar. The student pilot reported 68.4 hours of total flight time in all aircraft, and 13.1 hours in the Cessna 175. The wind at the time of the accident was from 200 degrees at 3 knots.
Factual narrative
On January 20, 2002, at approximately 1450 mountain standard time, a Cessna 175, N7693M, was substantially damaged during take-off roll at St. George Municipal Airport (SGU), St. George, Utah. The student pilot, the sole occupant on board, was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan was filed for this local solo instructional flight being conducted under Title 14 CFR Part 91. The flight originated at approximately 1440.
According to the student pilot's statement, she was performing touch-and-go landings on runway 16. The first landing was "a little hard, but OK." The pilot said she had "no right rudder control" when she added power for take off. The airplane veered, departed the left side of the runway, and nosed down in a gravel area between the taxiway and runway. The nose gear separated from the airplane. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall and outboard left wingtip spar.
According to the Pilot/Operator Aircraft Accident Report (NTSB Form 6120.1/2), the student pilot reported 68.4 hours of total flight time in all aircraft, and 13.1 hours in the Cessna 175.
The wind at the time of the accident was from 200 degrees at 3 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7693M
- Reported as
- Cessna 175
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 55993
- Airframe hours
- 2,800
- Engine
- Lycoming O&VO-360 SER, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- J-J Moyle INC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 22, 2001 · 30 hours before
- Departed
- SGU · St. George, UT
- Destination
- SGU · St. George, UT
- Airport
- SGU · St. George Municipal, runway 16, 6,606 × 100 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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 55
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 68 total · 13 in this make and model · 2 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 200° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 48 °F, dew point 12 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- KSGU
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 29, 2002, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.7 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.