NASA · Aviation Safety Reporting System
A Flight Instructor reported their student lost control of the rudder during takeoff and the aircraft veered off the runway onto an intersecting runway.
What is ASRS?
The Aviation Safety Reporting System is NASA's voluntary, confidential, non- punitive incident-reporting system, established 1976. Pilots, controllers, dispatchers, and maintenance technicians file reports describing safety- relevant events. NASA de-identifies every report before adding it to the public database. Reports are not investigated by NASA, the FAA, or the NTSB — they represent the reporter's perspective.
Pilot narrative
Verbatim from the de-identified NASA record. First-person account by the
reporter. NASA strips identifying details (names, company, specific time);
anonymization placeholders are ZZZ,
X, Y.
My student was taking off on [Runway] XX and around 50 knots the plane begin to pull left. He tried to apply more right rudder and nothing happened. He aborted his takeoff and still with no control of the rudder went off the runway on the left side. He crossed a grass area and stopped the plane on Runway XY/XZ.
NASA classification — Anomalies
- Aircraft Equipment Problem
- Ground Excursion
- Ground Incursion
- Ground Event / Encounter
NASA classification — Assessments
- Contributing Factors / Situations
- Aircraft · Human Factors
- Primary Problem
- Aircraft
ASRS reports are voluntarily submitted, de-identified by NASA, and represent the reporter's perspective. The presence of reports on a topic cannot be used to infer prevalence in the National Airspace System. The authoritative source is the NASA ASRS Database Online at asrs.arc.nasa.gov ↗.