- Date
- December 18, 2007, 09:51 local (15:51 UTC)
- Place
- Talladega, AL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2180ECessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 31, 2008
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Birmingham FSDO-09
- Case key
- 67266
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane.
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 stated that he entered left closed traffic for runway 21 at the Talladega Municipal Airport, Talladega, Alabama. He landed and started to prepare airplane for a touch-and-go. As he applied power he lost directional control of the airplane, went off the left side of the runway, and collided with a tree. The student pilot did not report any mechanical or flight control anomalies with the airplane.
Factual narrative
The student pilot stated he entered left closed traffic for runway 21 at the Talladega Municipal Airport, Talladega, Alabama. He landed and started to prepare airplane for a touch-and-go. As he applied power he lost directional control of the airplane, went off the left side of the runway, and collided with a tree. The student pilot did not report any mechanical or flight control anomalies with the airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2180E
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 172-71159
- Airframe hours
- 4,937
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-HAD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Redstone Arsenal Flying Activity
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · July 1, 2007 · 0 hours before
- Departed
- HUA · Talladega, AL
- Destination
- AFN · Jaffrey, NH
- Airport
- ASN · Talladega Muni, runway 21, 6,001 × 100 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 47
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 37 total · 37 in this make and model · 10 as pilot in command · 24 in the last 90 days · 14 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 170° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 41 °F, dew point 59 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.20 inHg
- Observed at
- KAFN