- Date
- January 14, 1992, 11:25 local (18:25 UTC)
- Place
- Albuquerque, NM
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N4885GCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 11, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920114000559A
- Case key
- 18434
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing. A factor was his lack of total experience.
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 twelve hour student pilot lost directional control of his airplane when he added power for an attempted aborted landing on his first solo landing. The airplane yawed to the left approximately thirty degrees, and continued to fly a few inches off the ground until contact was made with the rough and uneven ground on the side of the runway. After crossing a drainage ditch, the nose gear caught a rut on the soft ground and the airplane nosed over, coming to rest inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4885G
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17273432
- Airframe hours
- 3,500
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Thomas Kuehn, doing business as West Mesa Aviation
- Registered owner
- Century Elevator Corp.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · December 30, 1991 · 21 hours before
- Airport
- AEG · Dougle Eagle II, runway 22, 7,398 × 100 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
- 17
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 12 total · 12 in this make and model · 12 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 230° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 27 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- ABQ, 6 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.