- Date
- February 7, 2011, 13:10 local (18:10 UTC)
- Place
- Meriden, CT
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N9622QCessna 172
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 8, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20110207001199A
- Case key
- 78327
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 loss of directional control during the landing rollout, resulting 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 stated that he executed a go-around on the first approach for landing at the destination airport and the second approach for landing was normal. As the airplane touched down, the wind pushed it to the right. The airplane traveled off the right side of the runway and impacted a snow bank, resulting in substantial damage to the left wing spar. The pilot stated that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or anomalies with the airplane.
Factual narrative
The student pilot stated that he was on his first solo cross country flight. He executed a go-around on the first approach for landing at the destination airport, and the second approach for landing was normal. He stated that as the airplane touched down, the wind pushed the airplane to the right. The airplane traveled off the right side of the runway and impacted a snow bank,, resulting in substantial damage to the left wing spar. The pilot reported to a Federal Aviation Administration inspector that the airplane bounced, and that he was attempting to correct for a left crosswind. He also stated that there were no mechanical malfunctions or anomalies with the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9622Q
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (M)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17265707
- Airframe hours
- 2,105
- Engine
- Lycoming O320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Sky Jane, LLC
- Registered owner
- Sky Jane, LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 30, 2010 · 63 hours before
- Departed
- FRG · Farmingdale, NY
- Destination
- MMK · Meriden, CT
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- MMK · Meriden Markham Municipal, runway 18, 3,100 × 75 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
- 29
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2, Unknown
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 49 total · 35 in this make and model · 3 as pilot in command · 17 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 180° at 9 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 39 °F, dew point 25 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.95 inHg
- Observed at
- MMK
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 2, 2011, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.3 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.