- Date
- March 31, 2011, 11:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Republic, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7302ACessna 172
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 12, 2011
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA FSDO
- FAA report
- 20110331004369A
- Case key
- 78729
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Probable cause
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
Findings · 3
NTSB’s coded findings. Those marked are part of the probable cause; the rest are factors or other findings. Under each, the cases with the same finding.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Analysis
The student pilot was practicing forward slips to a landing for his private pilot check ride, which was scheduled for the following day. He performed a no flap landing and when he applied the brakes, the airplane turned to the right, and departed the runway surface. The airplane collided with rocks about one foot high. The nose wheel separated, and the left wing sustained substantial damage.
Factual narrative
The student pilot was practicing forward slips to a landing for his private pilot check ride, which was scheduled for the following day. He landed flaps up, and was rolling down the runway. As he applied the brakes, the airplane turned to the right, and departed the runway surface. The airplane collided with a winrow of rocks about a foot high. The nose wheel was knocked off, and the left wing sustained substantial damage. The pilot had a total time of 130 hours with 39 hours as pilot-in-command.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7302A
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 29402
- Airframe hours
- 4,761
- Engine
- Teledyne Continental Motors O-300, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Robert W Lievense
- Registered owner
- Robert W Lievense
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · June 2, 2010 · 47 hours before
- Departed
- R49 · Republic, WA
- Destination
- R49 · Republic, WA
- Airport
- R49 · Ferry, runway 35, 3,498 × 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
- 76
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 130 total · 130 in this make and model · 39 as pilot in command · 15 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Variable at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.86 inHg
- Observed at
- KOMK, 43 nm away
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 13, 2011, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 4.3 MB in all.
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.