Cessna 172S N18563

Summary

On 26 March 2010 at about 16:20 local time, a Cessna 172S registered N18563, operated by Lonestar Flyers, was involved in an accident near Mckinney, Texas, United States. One person was 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

26 March 2010 at 16:20

Classification

Accident

Location

Mckinney, Texas, United States

Nearest airport

Collin County Regional Airport (KTKI)

Coordinates

33.1778, -96.5906

Aircraft

Cessna 172S

Registration

N18563

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Lonestar Flyers

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Addison → Mckinney

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CEN10CA176

Nobody was injured.

The student pilot's loss of directional control while landing with a crosswind.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The student pilot was on his third solo flight and planned to do several touch-and-go landings. He reported that he had completed five landings without incident. On the sixth landing, he stated that after the main wheels touched the runway the airplane veered left. The student pilot was unable to correct back to the center of the runway. The airplane then exited the runway, the nose gear encountered soft terrain, dug in, and was torn from the airplane. The student pilot added that at the time of the accident the wind was out of the southeast and gusting, but was within the crosswind limit he and his flight instructor had set before the flight.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.