- Date
- February 18, 2025, 15:46 local (23:46 UTC)
- Place
- Oxnard, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3901LCessna 172
- 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
- 20250218005039A
- Case key
- 199724
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 student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing roll.
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
According to the student pilot, he had been practicing touch-and-goes. Upon the fifth landing, the airplane began to veer to the left. He attempted to correct with right rudder, however, the airplane exited the left side of the runway. Subsequently, the right main landing gear impacted a sign, which resulted in substantial damage to the fuselage. At the time of the accident, the student pilot was landing on runway 25 with the wind from 260° at 10 knots. The student pilot reported no preimpact mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that could have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3901L
- Reported as
- Cessna 172 (G)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17254070
- Built
- 1966
- Airframe hours
- 3,458
- Engine
- Continental O-300, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- San Fernando Avitioin LLC, doing business as Advanced Flight & Instrument Training
- Registered owner
- San Fernando Avitioin LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- CMA · Camarillo, CA
- Destination
- Same as departure
- Flight plan
- VFR
- Airport
- OXR · Oxnard Airport, runway 25, 5,953 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Stall warning system, Satellite tracking device, Heads up display, Handheld GPS, Electronic primary flight display, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic flight bag or handheld device, Angle of attack indicator
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
- 27
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- Lap only
- Flight hours
- 28.2 total · 27.4 in this make and model · 2.5 as pilot in command · 28.2 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 260° at 10 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 63 °F, dew point 50 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.02 inHg
- Observed at
- KOXR
- METAR
- KOXR 182351Z 26010KT 10SM CLR 17/10 A3002 RMK AO2 SLP166 T01670100 10178 20156 56006
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on May 9, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 2.8 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 N3901L · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.