- Date
- September 23, 2006, 10:04 local (14:04 UTC)
- Place
- Pembroke Pine, FL
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N45945Cessna 152
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report December 28, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20060923031079A
- Case key
- 64597
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing roll. A factor was the runway sign.
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
On the third landing of his first supervised solo, the airplane drifted to the left as the pilot was in the flare. The student corrected to the right with right rudder, but after the airplane touched down it veered to the right and off the runway. The student attempted to correct back to the left, and after it did not respond he applied full brakes. The airplane then struck a runway sign, resulting in the airplane coming to rest on its nose and left wing tip off the right side of the runway.
Factual narrative
On the third landing of his first supervised solo, the airplane drifted to the left as the student pilot was in the flare. The student corrected to the right with right rudder, but after the airplane touched down it veered to the right and off the runway. The student attempted to correct back to the left, but after the airplane did not respond he applied full brakes. After striking a runway sign the airplane came to rest on its nose and left wing tip off the right side of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N45945
- Reported as
- Cessna 152
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15282954
- Engine
- Lycoming O-235, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Delta Connection Academy
- Registered owner
- Delta Connection Academy
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- HWO · Pembroke Pines, FL
- Destination
- HWO · Pembroke Pine, FL
- Airport
- HWO · North Perry Airport, runway 9R
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Flight crew · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 29
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2
- Flight hours
- 26 total · 26 in this make and model · 26 in the last 90 days · 9 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 39
- Certificates
- Flight engineer, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1
- Flight hours
- 650 total · 29 in this make and model · 128 in the last 90 days · 33 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N45945 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.