- Date
- November 25, 1991, 10:28 local (16:28 UTC)
- Place
- Okmulgee, OK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N65748Cessna 172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19911125058429A
- Case key
- 18416
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to compensate for a crosswind condition. Factors were the pilot's lack of total experience and the prevailing crosswind.
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
A 17 hour student pilot lost control of the aircraft after touchdown on the third landing of a supervised solo flight. The airplane bounced on touchdown and started to drift towards the left side of the runway. The pilot failed to properly compensate for the existing right crosswind, the aircraft exited the runway and the nose wheel sank into the soft mud causing the airplane to nose over on it's back.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N65748
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17275853
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Christiansen, Bill, doing business as Christiansen Aviation
- Registered owner
- Christiansen, Bill
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- RVS · Tulsa, OK
- Airport
- OKM · Okmulgee, runway 4, 4,300 × 150 ft, concrete
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 37
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 17 total · 12 in this make and model · 9 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 140° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Observed at
- TUL, 22 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.