- Date
- May 26, 2025, 16:15 local (23:15 UTC)
- Place
- Monroe, WA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6132GCessna 172N
- Defining event
- Landing-landing roll: 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
- 20250526008619A
- Case key
- 200224
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 airplane control during landing, and the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action, which resulted in impact with a ditch.
Findings · 5
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 and instructor were practicing short field landings at an airport with a 34-foot-wide runway. While performing the second landing, the student pilot landed left of the runway centerline, and the left tire entered the grass along the runway edge. Both the student pilot and instructor attempted to correct by applying right rudder, however the airplane continued to veer left. The airplane subsequently impacted a ditch filled with tall grass, resulting in substantial damage to the right wing and fuselage. The flight instructor reported there were no preaccident mechanical failures or malfunctions with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6132G
- Reported as
- Cessna 172N
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17273570
- Built
- 1980
- Airframe hours
- 19,106.9
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 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
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Utility; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · May 14, 2025
- Departed
- KPAE · Everett, WA
- Airport
- W16 · First Air Field, runway 7, 2,087 × 34 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- ADS-B, Stall warning system
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 · 2
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Flight instructor
- Age
- 37
- Injuries
- None
- Certificates
- Commercial, Private, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Last flight review
- January 18, 2025
- Seat
- Right
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 1,434.8 total · 433 in this make and model · 1,313.5 as pilot in command · 160 in the last 90 days · 54 in the last 30 days
- Role
- Student pilot
- Age
- 38
- Injuries
- None
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 1, Without waivers/limitations
- Seat
- Left
- Restraint
- 4-point
- Flight hours
- 54 total · 54 in this make and model · 1.1 as pilot in command · 45.2 in the last 90 days · 14.8 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 5,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 64 °F, dew point 46 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.15 inHg
- Observed at
- KAWO, 19 nm away
- METAR
- KAWO 262256Z AUTO 22006KT 10SM BKN050 18/08 A3015 RMK AO2 SLP216 T01830078
Docket · 2
The files NTSB released with the investigation on August 28, 2025, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 1.7 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.