ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 386216
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| Date: | Tuesday 13 February 2001 |
| Time: | 13:50 LT |
| Type: |  Cessna 172R |
| Owner/operator: | Western Michigan University |
| Registration: | N975BC |
| MSN: | 17280046 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1997 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 2234 hours |
| Engine model: | Lycoming IO-360-L2A |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Battle Creek, MI -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Battle Creek-WK Kellogg Regional Airport, MI (BTL/KBTL) |
| Battle Creek-WK Kellogg Regional Airport, MI (BTL/KBTL) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The student pilot was practicing touch-and-go landings on his second solo flight. After the first landing was completed, the pilot advanced the throttle for the next takeoff roll when the aircraft swerved to the left, impacting a snowbank along the left side of the runway. The pilot reported, "I performed the first circuit [traffic pattern] correctly and placed [landed] the aircraft a little to the left of the centerline. My intention was to do a touch and go. I looked down upon touchdown to give the aircraft full throttle. As I did this I felt the nose shake a little. When I looked up, the tail simultaneously fishtailed to the right." The pilot reported, "I was heading directly for the left side of the runway edge. I tried to correct the situation with right rudder, but my recovery was either not quick enough or I didn't get enough response from the rudder." The pilot stated, "The nose hit the snow immediately at the edge of the runway and sunk in. The rest of the aircraft flipped over the sunken nose wheel."
Probable Cause: Aircraft control not maintained by the student pilot during the takeoff roll. Factors to the accident were the student pilot's lack of experience and the snowbank.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB CHI01LA092
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| 18 April 2000 | N975BC | Western Michigan University | 0 | BATTLE CREEK, Michigan | |
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