Student pilot on solo flight in C172 departed runway after landing.

Attributes
ACN	1642775
Time
Date	201904
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Route In Use	Other traffic pattern
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Observer
Qualification	Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Flight Instructor Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 211 Flight Crew Total 483 Flight Crew Type 131
Person 2
Function	Trainee
Qualification	Flight Crew Student
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 34 Flight Crew Total 46 Flight Crew Type 46
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control

Narrative:

We took off then proceeded to complete 4 laps in the pattern after which I deemed he was ready to do his first solo. I endorsed him and he proceeded to begin his first solo. Coming in for his first landing everything was looking great; he was lined up on center line; flying at his final approach speed; he floated down the runway a little but his touchdown looked smooth. The plane then proceeded to veer off to the left at which time the student said he was applying correction but the plane was giving no response and continued into the grass in between the taxiway and the runway where the aircraft ran into a ditch. I immediately got over to the student as quick as I could to make sure that he was okay. He had a busted lip but that was all I could tell he then was taken in an ambulance then released one hour later.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Student pilot on Solo flight in C172 departed runway after landing.

Narrative: We took off then proceeded to complete 4 laps in the pattern after which I deemed he was ready to do his first solo. I endorsed him and he proceeded to begin his first solo. Coming in for his first landing everything was looking great; he was lined up on center line; flying at his final approach speed; he floated down the runway a little but his touchdown looked smooth. The plane then proceeded to veer off to the left at which time the student said he was applying correction but the plane was giving no response and continued into the grass in between the taxiway and the runway where the aircraft ran into a ditch. I immediately got over to the student as quick as I could to make sure that he was okay. He had a busted lip but that was all I could tell he then was taken in an ambulance then released one hour later.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.