- Date
- August 16, 2024, 19:17 UTC
- Place
- Orlando, FL · runway
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N61859Cessna 172
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control in flight
- 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
- 20240816010959A
- Case key
- 194942
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 while landing with a crosswind. Contributing was the instructor’s delayed remedial action.
Findings · 4
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
According to the flight instructor, the wind was gusting significantly during the practice short field landing with the student pilot. He described that the student pilot made a normal approach, but as they got over the runway and attempted to land and entered ground effect, the airplane ballooned and turned sideways, which was exacerbated by the winds. The student pilot added power but did not input sufficient rudder control to straighten the airplane’s flight track. The airplane continued to float as the student increased engine power rapidly, then the student “froze” as the airplane began to turn further sideways over the grass. The flight instructor took control of the airplane, added full power, and attempted a go around but was unable to regain directional control and stop the descent. The airplane landed hard in a marshy area off the side of the runway, substantially damaging the wings and fuselage. The flight instructor reported that there were no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or failures of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N61859
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (M)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17264849
- Built
- 1975
- Airframe hours
- 11,504
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Jprg Aviation Inc
- Registered owner
- Jprg Aviation Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 2, 2024 · 92 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- ORL · Exec, runway 7, 6,004 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, Onboard weather, ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 26
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Private, Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- September 11, 2023
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 800 total · 531 in this make and model · 719 as pilot in command · 110 in the last 90 days · 38 in the last 30 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 32
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 85 total · 84 in this make and model · 11 as pilot in command · 7 in the last 90 days · 6 in the last 30 days · 0 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 9 knots, gusting 17
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 90 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.02 inHg
- Observed at
- ORL
- METAR
- KORL 161853Z 06009G17KT 030V090 10SM SCT075 32/19 A3002 RMK AO1 SLP167 T03220189
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on September 27, 2024, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 42.0 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.