Cessna 172M N13394

Summary

On 19 September 2014 at about 15:00 local time, a Cessna 172M registered N13394, operated by Apopka Aviation & Flight Services, was involved in an accident near Leesburg, Florida, 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

19 September 2014 at 15:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Leesburg, Florida, United States

Nearest airport

Leesburg International (LEE)

Coordinates

28.8228, -81.8083

Aircraft

Cessna 172M

Registration

N13394

Category

Airplane

Year built

1973

Engines

1

Operator

Apopka Aviation & Flight Services

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Apopka → Leesburg

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ERA14LA448

Nobody was injured.

The flight instructor’s delayed remedial action and his subsequent loss of directional control during landing on a wet runway for reasons that could not be determined because postaccident examination of the airplane revealed no anomalies.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The flight instructor and student pilot were conducting practice touch-and-go takeoffs and landings in the airport traffic pattern. The instructor stated that the runway was wet from rain earlier in the day. During the fifth landing, the student landed the airplane right of the runway centerline. The flight instructor described the landing as "soft" and "slow." The student applied left rudder to steer the airplane back toward the centerline, but the airplane continued to drift left. The flight instructor stated that he took the flight controls, applied left rudder, and then applied left brake, but the airplane "did not respond." The airplane subsequently ran off the left side of the runway, impacted a sign, and came to rest upright about 250 ft past the runway edge. The left main landing gear collapsed, and the firewall sustained substantial damage. Postaccident examination of the landing gear, wheels, brakes, rudder controls, and nosewheel steering revealed no anomalies.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.