- Date
- October 4, 1996, 13:00 local (19:00 UTC)
- Place
- Colorado Spgs, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N25772Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report February 1, 1997
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19961004030979A
- Case key
- 20081
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Probable cause
the student pilot attempting to exit the runway onto a taxiway at excessive speed. A factor was the pilot's failure to land the aircraft in the proper touchdown zone.
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 tower controller instructed the solo student pilot to expedite exiting the runway following landing due to jet traffic on a 4 mile final. The student attempted to exit the first available taxiway, which was over 4,000 feet from the approach end of the runway. While exiting the runway, the aircraft slid off the runway/taxiway into a ditch perpendicular to the taxiway. Performance information indicated the aircraft could have been slowed in a normal non-hazardous fashion, if the landing had been made in the first 1,500 feet of the runway.
Factual narrative
On October 4, 1996, at 1300 mountain daylight time, a Cessna 152, N25772, operated by Emery Aviation College, sustained substantial damage during landing roll when it departed the side of the runway/taxiway at Colorado Springs Municipal Airport, Colorado Springs, Colorado, as the student pilot attempted to exit the runway on the first taxiway after landing. The pilot was not injured during this local area student solo training flight operating under Title 14 CFR Part 91 and no flight plan was filed. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed.
According to both the student pilot and the tower chief, the student had been directed by the tower to expedite exiting the runway due to jet traffic on a 4 mile final. The first turn off, taxiway A2, was over 4,000 feet from the approach end of the runway. In attempting a high speed turn, the aircraft slid off the runway/taxiway into a ditch perpendicular to the taxiway. According to performance information, if the landing had been made in the landing zone (first 1,500 feet of the runway) the aircraft could have been slowed in a normal non hazardous fashion.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N25772
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15280774
- Airframe hours
- 8,060
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235-L2C, 110 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Emery Aviation College, doing business as Emery Aviation
- Registered owner
- Technical Trades Institute
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · September 25, 1996 · 46 hours before
- Departed
- COS
- Airport
- COS · Colorado Springs, runway 17R, 11,021 × 150 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
- 19
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 22 total · 22 in this make and model · 22 as pilot in command · 2 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- COS, 1 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.