NTSB Identification: CEN12CA356
14 CFR Part 91: General Aviation
Accident occurred Monday, June 11, 2012 in Indianapolis, IN
Probable Cause Approval Date: 10/04/2012
Aircraft: EVEKTOR-AEROTECHNIK AS SPORTSTAR, registration: N902LA
Injuries: 1 Uninjured.
NTSB investigators used data provided by various entities, including, but not limited to, the Federal Aviation Administration and/or the operator and did not travel in support of this investigation to prepare this aircraft accident report.
The student pilot reported that the flight began as a dual instruction flight with his flight instructor. They performed 6 or 7 landings, which included simulated engine failures. The instructor then exited the airplane, and the student pilot performed two more takeoffs and landings to a full stop without incident. On the third solo takeoff, the left wing dipped and contacted the ground. The airplane then began to skid left, then off the runway to a stop. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall. The student pilot listed no mechanical failures or malfunctions of the airplane.
The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be:
The student pilot’s failure to maintain control of the airplane during takeoff.
The student pilot reported that the flight began as a dual instruction flight with his flight instructor. They performed 6 or 7 landings, which included simulated engine failures. The instructor then exited the airplane and the student pilot performed 2 more takeoffs and landings to a full stop without incident. On the third solo takeoff the left wing dipped and contacted the ground. The airplane then began to skid to the left, off the runway to a stop. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the firewall. The student pilot listed no mechanical failure or malfunction of the airplane.
A student pilot crashed a single engine
airplane during his first solo flight Monday morning at the Greenwood
Municipal Airport. No injuries were reported.
A plane crashed Monday morning at the Greenwood Municipal Airport.
PHOTO BY SCOTT ROBERSON
PHOTO BY SCOTT ROBERSON
Greenwood firefighters work to stabilize a
single engine airplane that crashed Monday morning at the Greenwood
Municipal Airport by a student pilot on his first solo flight.
A student pilot walked away uninjured after crash-landing a small plane this morning at the Greenwood Municipal Airport.
R. Wade Kohlmano, 59, Indianapolis, was practicing his landings about 9:30 a.m. when the incident occurred, said Assistant Chief Matthew Fillenwarth of the Greenwood Police Department.
“He was supposed to do two landings with an instructor on board and then a third one by himself,” Fillenwarth said. “The instructor said he did the first two landings just fine.”
On the third landing, however — with the instructor watching from the ground — the plane touched down hard and appeared to bounce back into the air, Filllenwarth said. The impact caused some of the plane’s landing gear to collapse, he said, and when the plane touched down again, it tilted onto one of its wings and slid off the runway.
The plane, a two-seat 2007 Evekton Light Sport, is owned by a Greenwood flight school called Fast Track Flight, Fillenwarth said.
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