- Date
- December 13, 2024, 12:09 local (20:09 UTC)
- Place
- Gig Harbor, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6750HCessna 172M
- Defining event
- Landing: Loss of control on ground
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- Federal Aviation Administration
- FAA report
- 20241213018779A
- Case key
- 199428
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Probable cause
The student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during a touch-and-go.
Findings · 2
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 reported that he had been performing touch-and-goes and had landed left of the runway centerline. When he advanced the throttle, the aircraft “immediately pulled hard left due to its left-turning tendency,” and exited the left side of the runway. The student pilot attempted to continue the takeoff in an effort to overfly a sign, however the airplane’s landing gear impacted the top of the sign. The airplane then settled back onto terrain next to the runway, and the nose gear collapsed. As a result, the airplane sustained substantial damage to the forward fuselage. At the time of the accident, the pilot was taking off on runway 17 with wind 060° at 4 knots. The student pilot reported that there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6750H
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17265566
- Built
- 1975
- Airframe hours
- 16,498.1
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Pickett Michael R, doing business as Pavco Flight Center
- Registered owner
- Pickett Michael R
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · October 10, 2024
- Departed
- TIW · Gig Harbor, WA
- Airport
- TIW · Tacoma Narrows Airport, runway 17, 5,002 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Electronic primary flight display
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
- Student pilot
- Age
- 27
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 3-point
- Flight hours
- 32 total · 11 in this make and model · 6 in the last 90 days · 2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 60° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 8 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 4,600 ft broken
- Temperature
- 46 °F, dew point 43 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.68 inHg
- Observed at
- KTIW
- METAR
- KTIW 132016Z 06004KT 8SM -RA BKN046 OVC050 08/06 A2968 RMK AO2 P0001 T00780056
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 22, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.3 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.
Other investigations on N6750H · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.