Cessna 172N N5204K

Summary

On 3 February 2005 at about 19:30 local time, a Cessna 172N registered N5204K, operated by Avcenter, Inc., was involved in an accident near Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

3 February 2005 at 19:30

Classification

Accident

Location

Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States

Nearest airport

Idaho Falls Regional (IDA)

Coordinates

43.5144, -112.0703

Aircraft

Cessna 172N

Registration

N5204K

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Avcenter, Inc.

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Idaho Falls → Unknown

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

SEA05CA043

Nobody was injured.

The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control and the instructor's inadequate supervision of the flight. A contributing factor was the deep snow beside the runway.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

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The flight instructor reported that he and his student were performing touch and go landings on runway 35. On the second landing, the airplane touched down smoothly, and the flight instructor was "critiquing" the student's landing, when the student "unexpectedly added full power causing the plane to jerk to the left." The flight instructor reduced power and applied the brakes. He was unable to prevent the airplane from exiting the runway. When the nose wheel entered the "foot and a half deep snow" beside the runway, the airplane nosed over and came to rest inverted. The outboard left wing, the vertical stabilizer, and the wing struts sustained structural damage.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.