DFW07LA207 · Cessna 172S
Cessna 172S · Accident: loss of control in flight during takeoff
From McKinney National Airport (TKI) to Tyler Pounds Regional Airport (TYR)
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Event
- NTSB case
- DFW07LA207
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna 172S
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N22237
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route Possible conflict
- From McKinney National Airport (TKI), MC KINNEY, TXTo Tyler Pounds Regional Airport (TYR), Tyler, TX
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Takeoff
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of control in flight
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Directional control, not maintained
- Pilot in command › In-flight planning/decision, inadequate
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The operator reported that the flight was scheduled as a solo cross country flight for the 47-hour student pilot. The flight arrived at TYR and was topped-off with fuel. The student pilot reported that the second leg of his flight was cleared for takeoff from the 7,200-foot long, by 150-foot wide asphalt runway, behind a Continental passenger jet. Upon rotation, the airplane encountered wake turbulence from the departed jet, and the airplane was "pushed hard left." The pilot added that first instinct was to get the airplane back on the runway and in doing so, the airplane impacted the grass on the left side of the runway. The airplane continued across a crossing runway causing the airplane to become airborne. The winds at the time of the mishap were reported from 180 degrees at 8 knots.
Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane during takeoff. A contributing factor was the encounter with wake turbulence.
Verbatim NTSB analysis and probable cause from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record DFW07LA207
- Event ID
- 20071022X01630
- Case number
- DFW07LA207
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status, coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 95595b19aea9cdb94a6d3432cdf9c49f71f6c1c791c10dcbeffad46cfcc6ed35; retrieved 2026-09-22T03:23:58.251Z.