- Date
- June 14, 2019, 15:30 local (19:30 UTC)
- Place
- Tampa, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N84402Cessna 172
- Defining event
- Landing-flare/touchdown: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 3, 2020
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Parties
- FAA
- FAA report
- 20190614006939A
- Case key
- 99678
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing, which resulted in a runway excursion and subsequent nose-over.
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
The solo student pilot reported that, after touchdown, wind pushed the airplane to the left, and it then departed the runway onto soft, wet grass. He attempted to maneuver back onto the runway, but the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing.
Factual narrative
The student pilot reported that after touch down, the wind pushed the airplane to the left which travelled off the runway onto the soft wet grass. He attempted to maneuver back onto the runway but the airplane nosed over. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing. The student pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N84402
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (K)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17258461
- Built
- 1969
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320 SERIES, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Departed
- X39 · Tampa, FL
- Destination
- X39 · Tampa, FL
- Airport
- X39 · Tampa North Aero Park, runway 14, 3,541 × 50 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Unknown
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
- 25
- Injuries
- None
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Flight hours
- 40 total · 40 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 100° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,500 ft broken
- Temperature
- 82 °F, dew point 73 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.07 inHg
- Observed at
- KVDF, 13 nm away
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 20, 2020, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 306 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.