- Date
- August 4, 2018, 11:00 local (16:00 UTC)
- Place
- Sallisaw, OK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N707TMCessna 172
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 26, 2019
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20180804009879A
- Case key
- 98058
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Probable cause
The student pilot's loss of directional control during the landing roll.
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, during a solo flight in the traffic pattern, the airplane encountered a wind gust from the left during the landing roll. The airplane exited the left side of the runway and collided with a drainage culvert located about 100 ft east of the runway. The airplane's ground speed at the time of the collision was about 15 mph. The student reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right-wing spar. The METAR for the airport reported that, about the time of the accident, the wind was from 150° at 3 knots, and the skies were clear. No gusts were reported.
Factual narrative
According to the student pilot, during a solo-flight in the pattern, the airplane encountered a wind gust from the left during the landing roll on runway 17. The airplane exited the left side of the runway and collided with a drainage culvert located about 100ft east of the runway. The airplane's ground speed at the time of the collision was about 15 miles per hour. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing spar. The METAR for the accident airport reported that about the time of the accident the wind was from 150° at 3kts, and the skies were clear. No gusts were reported. The student pilot reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N707TM
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (H)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17255665
- Built
- 1966
- Airframe hours
- 2,881
- Engine
- Continental O-300, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Fast Mover Aviation Llc
- Registered owner
- Fast Mover Aviation Llc
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 31, 2018
- Departed
- FSM · Fort Smith, AR
- Destination
- JSV · Sallisaw, OK
- Airport
- JSV · Sallisaw Muni, runway 17, 4,006 × 75 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Onboard weather
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
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 25 total · 25 in this make and model · 25 in the last 90 days · 12 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 150° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 91 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.04 inHg
- Observed at
- KJSV
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 9, 2019, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 855 KB 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.