Cessna 172 N99467

Summary

On 24 April 2026 at about 18:40 local time, a Cessna 172 registered N99467, operated by Civil Air Patrol Inc, was involved in an accident near Quakertown, Pennsylvania, 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

24 April 2026 at 18:40

Classification

Accident

Location

Quakertown, Pennsylvania, United States

Nearest airport

Quakertown (UKT)

Coordinates

40.4347, -75.3795

Aircraft

Cessna 172

Registration

N99467

Category

Airplane

Year built

1985

Engines

1

Operator

Civil Air Patrol Inc

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Instructional

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

ERA26LA187

Nobody was injured.

The pilot receiving instruction’s failure to maintain aircraft directional control during the takeoff roll. Contributing was the flight crew’s failure to ensure a positive exchange of flight controls during the takeoff roll.

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

Read the full NTSB narrative

The flight instructor reported that the purpose of the local flight was to perform an onboarding evaluation/training flight with a pilot that he had not previously flown the accident aircraft make and model. The flight departed and the pilot performed various uneventful flight maneuvers before returning to the departure airport. Both pilots reported that throughout the flight there had been a positive exchange of flight controls any time the controls were passed from one pilot to the other. Upon returning, the flight instructor demonstrated a stabilized approach and landing for the pilot receiving instruction. The pilot receiving instruction took the controls for a “normal” takeoff. The flight instructor reported that when the takeoff roll began, the airplane began to travel left of the runway centerline. The pilot receiving instruction then overcorrected resulting in the airplane being right of the runway centerline. He told the pilot receiving instruction to correct his heading, which resulted in another overcorrection. The airplane traveled left of centerline and continued toward the left side of the runway. The flight instructor attempted to add right rudder control input and reported that the airplane momentarily aligned with the “runway sideline” before the pilot receiving instruction added more left rudder and he was overpowered. The pilot receiving instruction reported that when the airplane began to veer off the runway centerline he corrected but “needed more pressure than expected” before the airplane veered left. The airplane departed the runway surface, and the flight instructor attempted to “hop” over the precision approach path indicator system, during which the right main landing gear impacted the system and was separated. The airplane touched down and veered right across the runway and an adjacent grassy area before coming to rest on a taxiway which resulted in substantial damage to the right horizontal stabilizer. The flight instructor reported that there were no preaccident mechanical malfunctions or failures with the airplane that would have precluded normal operation.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.