Cessna 172N N711DA

Summary

On 19 April 2022 at about 17:30 local time, a Cessna 172N registered N711DA, operated by Aspen Flying Club, was involved in an accident near Englewood, Colorado, 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 April 2022 at 17:30

Classification

Accident

Location

Englewood, Colorado, United States

Nearest airport

Centennial Airport (KAPA)

Coordinates

39.5600, -104.8503

Aircraft

Cessna 172N

Registration

N711DA

Category

Airplane

Year built

1976

Engines

1

Operator

Aspen Flying Club

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Centennial → Centennial

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CEN22LA179

Nobody was injured.

The flight instructor’s inadequate supervision of the student pilot and the student pilot’s loss of directional control during landing, which resulted in a runway excursion.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The flight instructor reported that during landing, the student pilot was the pilot flying. The airplane touched down and immediately veered to the right. The student pilot attempted to correct with left rudder, but the airplane continued to veer to the right. The flight instructor then took the controls and stated she heard a “rumbling noise” coming from the nose wheel area of the airplane. The airplane exited the right side of the runway and impacted a taxiway sign coming to a rest in a ditch. The nosewheel strut, right main landing gear and horizontal stabilizer were substantially damaged. A postaccident visual examination of the brakes, nosewheel steering, and flight controls revealed no abnormalities or defects that would have precluded normal operation.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.