- Date
- September 26, 1989, 14:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- East Sound, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N84152Cessna 172K
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report June 26, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19890926052849A
- Case key
- 41088
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control.
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 practicing takeoffs and landings on his first supervised solo. He lost control of the aircraft during the second landing ground roll. The aircraft departed the side of the runway and collided with a ditch.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N84152
- Reported as
- Cessna 172K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17258359
- Airframe hours
- 9,956
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Gordon R. Koenig
- Registered owner
- Gordon R Koenig
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · August 31, 1989 · 53 hours before
- Departed
- S17 · East Sound, WA
- Airport
- S17 · Orcas Island, runway 34, 2,900 × 60 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
- 34
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 7 total · 5 in this make and model · 7 in the last 90 days · 4 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 360° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 10,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 68 °F, dew point 55 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BLI, 16 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.