- Date
- November 16, 2013, 15:00 local (20:00 UTC)
- Place
- St. Augustine, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N873EFCessna 172S
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report April 23, 2014
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20131116024799A
- Case key
- 88724
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 failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll with a crosswind.
Findings · 3
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
During the landing roll, the airplane veered off the left side of the runway and struck a runway sign, which resulted in substantial damage to the left wing strut and left horizontal stabilizer. Postaccident examination of the airplane did not reveal any preimpact malfunctions that would have precluded normal operation. The airplane had been operated about 13 hours since its most recent 100-hour inspection, which was performed 3 days before the accident. The student pilot had accumulated about 45 hours of total flight experience, all in the make and model of the accident airplane, including about 38 hours during the 90 days that preceded the accident. A 6-knot crosswind existed at the time of the accident.
Factual narrative
The student pilot was landing on runway 31, an 8,002-foot-long, 150-foot-wide, asphalt runway. During the landing roll, the airplane veered off the left side of the runway and struck a runway sign, which resulted in substantial damage to the left wing strut and left horizontal stabilizer. Postaccident examination of the airplane did not reveal any preimpact malfunctions that would have precluded normal operation. The airplane had been operated about 13 hours since its most recent 100 hour inspection, which was performed 3 days prior. The student pilot had accumulated about 45 hours of total flight experience, all in the make and model of the accident airplane, and included about 38 hours during the 90 days that preceded the accident. Winds reported at the airport, about the time of the accident, were from 40 degrees at 6 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N873EF
- Reported as
- Cessna 172S
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172S10163
- Built
- 2006
- Airframe hours
- 2,557
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-L2A, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Florida Flyers
- Registered owner
- Aviation Tech Services LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · November 13, 2013 · 13 hours before
- Departed
- SGJ · St. Augustine, FL
- Destination
- SGJ · St. Augustine, FL
- Airport
- SGJ · Northeast Florida Rgnl, runway 31, 8,002 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system
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
- 43
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 45 total · 45 in this make and model · 13 as pilot in command · 45 in the last 90 days · 38 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 40° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 3,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- SGJ
Docket · 6
The files NTSB released with the investigation on March 7, 2014, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 11.7 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.