Cessna 172 N12267

Summary

On 19 May 2018 at about 22:20 local time, a Cessna 172 registered N12267, operated by Onvoi LLC., was involved in an accident near Defuniak Springs, Florida, 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

19 May 2018 at 22:20

Classification

Accident

Location

Defuniak Springs, Florida, United States

Nearest airport

Defuniak Springs (54J)

Coordinates

30.7311, -86.1539

Aircraft

Cessna 172

Registration

N12267

Category

Airplane

Year built

1973

Engines

1

Operator

Onvoi LLC.

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Defuniak Springs → Defuniak Springs

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

GAA18CA299

Nobody was injured.

The student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the aborted landing.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

According to the student pilot, he was performing touch-and-go takeoffs and landings following his first cross-country solo flight. He reported that, during his last landing, the airplane touched down "all the way to the right side of the runway," so he aborted the landing. He shut off the carburetor heat and applied power, and the airplane's nose pitched up and turned left. The airplane impacted the grass safety area on the left side of the runway in a nose-down attitude. The airplane came to rest inverted after striking a drainage culvert and sustained substantial damage to the right-wing lift strut and aileron. The student reported that there were no mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.