- Date
- May 19, 2018, 17:20 local (22:20 UTC)
- Place
- Defuniak Springs, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N12267Cessna 172
- Defining event
- Takeoff: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 18, 2019
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20180519005579A
- Case key
- 97323
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Probable cause
The student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the aborted landing.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
According to the student pilot, he was performing touch-and-go takeoffs and landings following his first cross-country solo flight. He reported that, during his last landing, the airplane touched down "all the way to the right side of the runway," so he aborted the landing. He shut off the carburetor heat and applied power, and the airplane's nose pitched up and turned left. The airplane impacted the grass safety area on the left side of the runway in a nose-down attitude. The airplane came to rest inverted after striking a drainage culvert and sustained substantial damage to the right-wing lift strut and aileron. The student reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Factual narrative
According to the student pilot, he was performing touch-and-go takeoffs and landings following his first cross-country solo flight. He reported that during his last landing, the airplane touched down "all the way to the right side of the runway" so he aborted the landing. He shut off the carburetor heat and applied power, and the airplane's nose pitched up and turned to the left. The airplane impacted the grass safety area on the left side of the runway in a nose down attitude. The airplane came to rest inverted and sustained substantial damage to the right-wing lift strut and aileron. According to the operator, the pilot reported that during the aborted landing, he increased the power and the airplane veered to the left. The airplane exited the left side of the runway and the main landing gear struck a drainage culvert, and the airplane came to rest inverted. The student pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N12267
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (M)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17261911
- Built
- 1973
- Airframe hours
- 6,123.4
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Onvoi LLC.
- Registered owner
- Onvoi LLC.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · April 20, 2018
- Departed
- 54J · Defuniak Springs, FL
- Destination
- 54J · Defuniak Springs, FL
- Airport
- 54J · Defuniak Springs, runway 27, 4,146 × 60 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- None
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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 28
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, With waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- April 24, 2018
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 35 total · 35 in this make and model · 35 in the last 90 days · 35 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 210° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Temperature
- 88 °F, dew point 64 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.98 inHg
- Observed at
- KCEW, 19 nm away
Docket · 3
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 4, 2018, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 3.8 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.