- Date
- August 6, 2024, 11:00 local (15:00 UTC)
- Place
- Medina, OH · Off end of runway 19 at K1G5
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6543ECessna 172
- Defining event
- Landing: Landing area overshoot
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Parties
- FAA/FSDO
- FAA report
- 20240806013129A
- Case key
- 194860
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 attain a proper touchdown point, which resulted in a runway overrun and subsequent noseover.
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 and the flight instructor had completed several practice takeoffs and landings, after which the flight instructor disembarked and sent the student pilot for a solo flight in the airport traffic pattern. As the student pilot approached the runway for landing, the flight instructor stated that the airplane looked like it was “high and fast.” The airplane subsequently touched down near the midpoint of the runway and overran the departure end. The airplane nosed over during the runway excursion and sustained substantial damage to the vertical stabilizer and rudder. The flight instructor reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6543E
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (N)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17272033
- Built
- 1978
- Airframe hours
- 6,256
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- 1G5 · Medina Muni, runway 19, 2,868 × 60 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Satellite tracking device, ADS-B
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
- 78
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 73.5 total · 36 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 84 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.95 inHg
- Observed at
- AKR, 15 nm away
- METAR
- SPECI KAKR 061515Z AUTO 23008KT 10SM SCT027 29/23 A2995 RMK AO2 RAE1459 P0000 T02890228 PWINO $
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on December 2, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 5.1 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.