- Date
- March 24, 1995, 12:50 local (17:50 UTC)
- Place
- Mitchellville, MD
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N66010Cessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report August 23, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19950324006599A
- Case key
- 38937
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control and the instructor's inadequate supervision. Related factors: high winds, and a crosswind.
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 was authorized by his instructor to operate in the traffic pattern. He had landed on runway 36, and during the landing roll, the airplane departed the left side of the runway, into a ditch, and nosed over. According to the pilot's statement, at the time of the accident the winds were, 'blowing greater than forecasted, [from 270] at 15 knots, [gusts] to 35 knots.' The pilot wrote on his statement, '...on roll out aircraft weather vaned into wind, left runway, went into ditch and flipped over.' Runway 36 was 30 feet wide and 2400 feet long.
Factual narrative
On March 24, 1995, at 1250 eastern standard time, a Cessna 172, N66010, piloted by Brett Murray, was substantially damaged during the landing roll at the Freeway Airport, Mitchellville, Maryland. The pilot was not injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and no flight plan had been filed for the flight operating under 14 CFR 91.
The student pilot was authorized by his instructor to conduct solo flight in the traffic pattern. He landed on runway 36 and during the landing roll, the airplane departed the runway to the left, entered a ditch, and nosed over.
According to the pilot's statement on the NTSB Form 6120.1/2, at the time of the accident the winds were, "blowing greater than forecasted, [from 270] at 15 [gusts] to 35 knots." The pilot also wrote, "...on roll out aircraft weather vaned into wind, left runway, went into ditch and flipped over."
Runway 36 was 30 feet wide and 2400 feet long.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N66010
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17275947
- Airframe hours
- 10,000
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2L, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Freeway Airport Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · January 24, 1995 · 10 hours before
- Airport
- W00 · Freeway Airport, runway 36, 2,400 × 30 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
- 38
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 55 total · 55 in this make and model · 7 as pilot in command
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 270° at 20 knots, gusting 35
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Temperature
- 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 31.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.