- Date
- March 19, 2025, 08:21 local (12:21 UTC)
- Place
- Miami, FL · Airport property
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N62PTCessna 162
- Defining event
- Initial climb: Aerodynamic stall/spin
- 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
- 20250319002039A
- Case key
- 199886
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Probable cause
The student pilot’s failure to maintain control of the airplane during a go-around, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall.
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
On the day of the accident, the student pilot performed three takeoffs and landings with his flight instructor before he was cleared by the instructor for solo takeoffs and landings. The student stated that he performed two uneventful solo takeoffs and landings. During the third landing, the airplane landed hard, bounced, and the pilot initiated a go-around. During the go-around, the airplane stalled, and its left wing impacted the ground. The airplane exited departed the runway and came to rest in an upright position in a grassy area adjacent to the runway. The airplane sustained substantial damage to its left wing. The student pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N62PT
- Reported as
- Cessna 162
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 16200137
- Built
- 2011
- Airframe hours
- 2,646.6
- Engine
- Continental O-200-D, 100 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Pilot Training Center LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Special, Special light-sport (Special)
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · February 14, 2025 · 41.5 hours before
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Airport
- TMB · Miami Executive Airport, runway 9L, 5,003 × 150 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, 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
- Pilot
- Age
- 22
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- March 19, 2025
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 52.1 total · 52.1 in this make and model · 0.6 as pilot in command · 16.3 in the last 90 days · 6.1 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 66 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.12 inHg
- Observed at
- TMB, 1 nm away
- METAR
- KTMB 191253Z 00000KT 10SM CLR 19/16 A3012 RMK AO2 SLP199 T01890156 $
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on July 3, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.9 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.