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Cessna 172S N348RM

7 February 2021 · Urbana, Ohio, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 7 February 2021 at about 20:00 local time, a Cessna 172S registered N348RM, operated by Lunken Flight Training Center LLC, was involved in an accident near Urbana, Ohio, 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.

The record

Date
at 20:00
Classification
Accident
Location
Urbana, Ohio, United States
Nearest airport
Grimes Fld (I74)
Coordinates
40.1307, -83.7543
Aircraft
Cessna 172S
Registration
N348RM
Category
Airplane
Year built
2001
Engines
1
Operator
Lunken Flight Training Center LLC
Operating rule
Part 91: General Aviation
Purpose of flight
Instructional
Phase of flight
Not recorded
Route
Cincinnati → Unknown
Aircraft damage
Substantial
Weather
VMC
Light
Day
NTSB number
CEN21LA126

People

Nobody was injured.

On board Died Serious Minor Uninjured
1 0 0 0 1

Probable cause

The student pilot’s loss of directional control during landing which resulted in an impact with a snowbank. The slippery runway condition contributed to the accident.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The student pilot reported that he was 0n a solo cross-country flight and the takeoff, climb, and en route portions of the flight were uneventful. He expected to perform a touch-and-go landing at the accident airport. During the approach, he noticed that the runway had patchy snow on it. Upon landing the airplane veered to the left, which the student pilot believed was due to the unresponsiveness of the controls and the ice. He decided to change to a full stop landing and applied the brakes, but the airplane struck a snowbank on the left side of the runway, and it tipped forward and to the right. The airplane’s right wing was bent up at the tip resulting in substantial damage. The student pilot stated that there were no mechanical anomalies with the airplane that would have precluded normal operations. The airport manager confirmed that the runway had patchy compressed snow covering about 25% of the runway surface.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

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