- Date
- May 23, 1988, 09:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- Roanoke, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N52119Cessna 172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1990
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880523071309A
- Case key
- 22644
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Probable cause
The student pilot failed to maintain directional yaw axis control of the aircraft during the crosswind take off.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The student pilot was departing from runway 35 on a local solo instructional flight, when at liftoff, the aircraft weathervaned into the gusting crosswind. The aircraft dropped onto the ground, swerved off the runway, and flipped over after impacting a gravel pile.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N52119
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17274418
- Airframe hours
- 3,814
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D23, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- North Texas Aero
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 2, 1987 · 86 hours before
- Departed
- 52F · Roanoke, TX
- Airport
- 52F · Aero Valley, runway 35, 3,500 × 40 ft, asphalt
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
- 42
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 48 total · 6 in this make and model · 22 as pilot in command · 48 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 310° at 14 knots, gusting 23
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 72 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- FTW, 15 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.