- Date
- March 18, 1994, 11:30 local (18:30 UTC)
- Place
- Buena Vista, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7876GCessna 172L
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 14, 1994
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940318006009A
- Case key
- 19016
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Probable cause
The improper supervision of the instructor pilot. A factor was the loss of directional control by the student pilot.
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
During a touch and go landing on an instructional flight, the aircraft began to drift to the left off the runway following touchdown. The instructor pilot stated that he attempted to assume control of the aircraft, but 'was unable to correct the condition prior to striking an embankment.'
Factual narrative
On March 18, 1994, at 1130 mountain standard time, a Cessna 172L, N7876G, was substantially damaged during landing at Buena Vista Municipal Airport in Buena Vista, Colorado. The certified flight instructor and student pilot were not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the instructional flight.
In the Pilot/Operator report, the instructor pilot stated that the aircraft began to drift to the left off the runway during a touch and go landing. He further stated that the aircraft "ran off the runway, at which time I attempted to maneuver us back onto the runway." He added that he was "unable to correct the condition prior to striking an embankment."
An examination of the airplane revealed no mechanical difficulties.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7876G
- Reported as
- Cessna 172L
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17259576
- Airframe hours
- 4,100
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Salida Air Service, Inc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · January 24, 1994 · 70 hours before
- Departed
- 0V2 · Salida, CO
- Airport
- 7V1 · Buena Vista Municipal, runway 15, 9,000 × 48 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
- 39
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 1,850 total · 780 in this make and model · 1,750 as pilot in command · 117 in the last 90 days · 30 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 290° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 18 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- LXV, 20 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.