- Date
- February 9, 2025, 14:45 local (19:45 UTC)
- Place
- Rock Hill, SC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N84048Cessna 172
- Defining event
- Landing-aborted after touchdown: Dragged wing/rotor/float/other
- 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
- 20250209000949A
- Case key
- 199668
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 control of the airplane during an aborded crosswind landing.
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
While conducting a solo flight in the airport traffic pattern the student pilot approached the runway, and during the landing, a crosswind pushed the airplane to the left. The pilot applied engine power to abort the landing, but the airplane rolled to the left and the left wing struck the ground. The airplane came to rest in the grass next to the runway and the fuselage, engine mount, and both wings were substantially damaged during the accident sequence. The pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N84048
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (K)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17258314
- Built
- 1969
- Airframe hours
- 4,016.99
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Aces Flight School
- Registered owner
- Kyzer Aviation Holdings LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 29, 2025 · 32.4 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- UZA · Rock Hill/York County/Bryant Fld, runway 20, 5,500 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Electronic flight bag or handheld device, ADS-B, Stall warning system, 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
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 55
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, With waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 166.7 total · 166.7 in this make and model · 38.2 as pilot in command · 14 in the last 90 days · 8.6 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.01 inHg
- Observed at
- UZA
- METAR
- KUZA 091954Z AUTO 27004KT 10SM FEW070 24/12 A3001 RMK AO2 SLP154 T02390122
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 17, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 8.7 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.