Crash location | 39.520834°N, 75.723611°W |
Nearest city | Summit, DE
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Tail number | N134B |
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Accident date | 07 Nov 2009 |
Aircraft type | Cessna 172S |
Additional details: | None |
The student pilot stated that he was performing a solo touch and go landing. After touchdown, he applied full throttle and the airplane began swerving left and right. He aborted the takeoff and attempted to regain directional control before departing off the left side of the runway. The airplane continued traveling in the grass and the nose wheel struck a depression just prior to a paved taxiway damaging the nose landing gear and firewall.
The student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during takeoff.