Cessna 172P N62405
17 July 2022 · Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States · No injuries
Summary
On 17 July 2022 at about 18:25 local time, a Cessna 172P registered N62405, operated by Flight School of Gwinnett Inc, was involved in an accident near Lawrenceville, Georgia, 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 18:25
- Classification
- Accident
- Location
- Lawrenceville, Georgia, United States
- Nearest airport
- Gwinnett County - Briscoe Fld (LZU)
- Coordinates
- 33.9781, -83.9624
- Aircraft
- Cessna 172P
- Registration
- N62405
- Category
- Airplane
- Year built
- 1981
- Engines
- 1
- Operator
- Flight School of Gwinnett Inc
- Operating rule
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Purpose of flight
- Instructional
- Phase of flight
- Not recorded
- Route
- Anderson → Unknown
- Aircraft damage
- Substantial
- Weather
- VMC
- Light
- Day
- NTSB number
- ERA22LA324
People
Nobody was injured.
| On board | Died | Serious | Minor | Uninjured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Probable cause
The student pilot’s failure to maintain 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 reported that he performed a straight-in approach for landing at the conclusion of his first solo cross-country flight. At the time, a 6-knot, left crosswind was reported at the field. Prior to touchdown, the airplane was “on the correct glide path” with the flaps fully deployed. While in the landing flare and just prior to touchdown, the nose of the airplane “shifted left” and the airplane touched down headed off the left side of the runway. The pilot said he briefly corrected, but eventually the airplane performed a runway excursion to its left coming to rest upright in the grass. Postaccident examination of the airplane revealed substantial damage to the nose landing gear mount structure. The pilot reported there were no pre-accident mechanical failures or malfunctions of the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.
Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.
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