- Date
- September 19, 2005, 13:05 local (17:05 UTC)
- Place
- Caldwell, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N64763Cessna 172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 31, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Teterboro
- Case key
- 62491
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control while landing. A factor in this accident was the crosswind condition.
Sequence of events
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Analysis
The student pilot was conducting her first solo flight, and had completed two landings to runway 27, a 3,721-foot-long, 75-foot-wide, asphalt runway. During her third landing attempt, a wind gust caused the airplane to balloon, and the airplane touched down angled to the left. The airplane rolled off the left side of the runway, and struck a runway and taxiway sign. The student pilot reported 45 hours of total flight experience, which included 20 hours in the same make and model as the accident airplane. Winds reported at the airport about the time of the accident, were variable from 300 to 10 degrees, with the predominate wind from 340 degrees at 7 knots.
Factual narrative
On September 19, 2005, about 1305 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 172P, N64763, was substantially damaged while landing at the Essex County Airport (CDW), Caldwell, New Jersey. The certificated student pilot was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and no flight plan and had been filed for the local instructional flight that was conducted under 14 CFR Part 91.
The student pilot was conducting her first solo flight, and had completed two landings to runway 27, a 3,721-foot-long, 75-foot-wide, asphalt runway. During her third landing attempt, a wind gust caused the airplane to balloon, and the airplane touched down angled to the left. The airplane rolled off the left side of the runway, and struck a runway and taxiway sign.
The student pilot reported 45 hours of total flight experience, which included 20 hours in the same make and model as the accident airplane.
Winds reported at the airport about the time of the accident, were variable from 300 to 10 degrees, with the predominate wind from 340 degrees at 7 knots.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N64763
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17275620
- Airframe hours
- 7,886
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Air Fleet
- Registered owner
- Genesus One Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · July 1, 2005
- Departed
- CDW · Caldwell, NJ
- Destination
- CDW · Caldwell, NJ
- Airport
- CDW · Essex County, runway 27, 3,721 × 75 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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 30
- Injuries
- None
- Medical
- Class 2, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 45 total · 20 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 340° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 79 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.02 inHg
- Observed at
- CDW