- Date
- August 20, 1991, 10:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Everett, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N738ETCessna 172N
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report May 3, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910820062289A
- Case key
- 41519
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Probable cause
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control. A factor related to the accident was: the taxiway marker's lack of frangibility due to its construction.
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 reported that after he applied power to takeoff from a touch and go landing, he lost directional control and aircraft collided with a taxiway informational sign. The aircraft incurred substantial damage; however, the sign, which was located at the edge of the runway safety area, sustained only minimal damage. The four by four supports, which had been cross drilled by airport maintenance personnel, failed to break away.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N738ET
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17269926
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Morcom Aviation Services, Inc., doing business as Regal Air
- Registered owner
- Morcom Aviation Services, Inc.
- Airport
- PAE · Snohomish County, runway 34R, 3,000 × 75 ft, asphalt
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 17
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 15 total · 15 in this make and model · 15 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 300° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 75 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.