- Date
- September 14, 1994, 10:30 local (15:30 UTC)
- Place
- Oil Trough, AR
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1367UCessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 27, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940914027359A
- Case key
- 19161
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Probable cause
The pilot's loss of aircraft directional control during the landing roll. A factor was the wet grass landing surface.
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 on a solo flight practicing landing on a grass strip. The grass was wet with dew. During the landing roll the student attempted to slow down by applying the brakes. Directional control was lost and the airplane skidded into a hangar.
Factual narrative
On September 14, 1994, at 1030 central daylight time, a Cessna 172M, N1367U, was substantially damaged during landing near Oil Trough, Arkansas. The student pilot was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the supervised solo flight.
According to the pilot, he was landing on a grass strip and made his approach "a little too high and a little too fast." He did not realize the grass was wet with dew. During the landing roll he attempted to slow down by applying the brakes. Directional control was lost and the airplane slid sideways coming to rest up against a hangar. The left wing spar and an engine mount sustained substantial damage.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1367U
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17267038
- Airframe hours
- 2,022
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Hon, Charles M.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal; Standard, Utility
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 20, 1994 · 33 hours before
- Departed
- BVX · Batesville, AR
- Destination
- NONE
- Airport
- NONE · Amos Private, runway 36, 2,905 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- 50
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 70 total · 50 in this make and model · 40 as pilot in command · 40 in the last 90 days · 15 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
- 73 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.