- Date
- September 23, 2005, 11:50 local (15:50 UTC)
- Place
- Mitchellville, MD
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N99137Cessna 172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report January 31, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Parties
- Baltimore FSDO
- FAA report
- 20050923024929A
- Case key
- 62559
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing.
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
While practicing touch and go landings on runway 36, the airplane drifted off the left side of the runway and then impacted two parked aircraft. The pilot reported no mechanical deficiencies with the airplane. He also reported 181 hours of total flight experience, all of which were in make and model of the accident airplane.
Factual narrative
On September 23, 2005, at 1150 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 172P, N99137, was substantially damaged during landing at the Freeway Airport (W00), Mitchellville, Maryland. The certificated private pilot was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and a visual meteorological flight rules flight plan was filed for the local personal flight conducted under 14 CFR Part 91.
According to the pilot, while practicing touch and go landings on runway 36, the airplane drifted off the left side of the runway and then impacted two parked aircraft.
The pilot reported no mechanical deficiencies with the airplane. He also reported 181 hours of total flight experience, all of which were in make and model of the accident airplane.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N99137
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17276408
- Airframe hours
- 11,194
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Freeway Airport Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Destination
- W00
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- W00 · Freeway Airport, runway 36, 2,425 × 40 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
- Pilot
- Age
- 42
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- July 1, 2005
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 181 total · 181 in this make and model · 36 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 7,000 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 54 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.64 inHg
- Observed at
- FME, 9 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.