Instructor reports that current student was training without a current student certificate.

Attributes
ACN	1664238
Time
Date	201907
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
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
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Instructor
Qualification	Air Traffic Control Fully Certified Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Commercial Flight Crew Flight Instructor
Experience	Air Traffic Control Radar 8 Flight Crew Last 90 Days 33 Flight Crew Total 600 Flight Crew Type 311
Person 2
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Student
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 18 Flight Crew Total 38 Flight Crew Type 6.1
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Excursion Runway

Narrative:

I was informed that my current student; who is flying with another CFI; overran the runway into a ditch while on a solo cross country flight. The aircraft had minor damage and the student was not injured. While being investigated by the NTSB/FAA; it was found that the student did not have a student certificate. Later; we found that the student did in fact have a certificate that was issued in 2002 with no expiration date on his iacra homepage. While looking through all paperwork; I assumed that his 2002 student certificate was still valid. After the incident; I reissued the student a new certificate through the iacra website. With the new rules and regulations; I have educated myself (after being out of active teaching during these rule changes); along with the student and the other CFI; that the student needs the hard copy of the student certificate for future flights. From now on; I'll be making sure all my students have their student certificates on their person. I will also make sure all documents are up to date with the current standards.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Instructor reports that current student was training without a current student certificate.

Narrative: I was informed that my current student; who is flying with another CFI; overran the runway into a ditch while on a solo cross country flight. The aircraft had minor damage and the student was not injured. While being investigated by the NTSB/FAA; it was found that the student did not have a student certificate. Later; we found that the student did in fact have a certificate that was issued in 2002 with no expiration date on his IACRA homepage. While looking through all paperwork; I assumed that his 2002 student certificate was still valid. After the incident; I reissued the student a new certificate through the IACRA website. With the new rules and regulations; I have educated myself (after being out of active teaching during these rule changes); along with the student and the other CFI; that the student needs the hard copy of the student certificate for future flights. From now on; I'll be making sure all my students have their student certificates on their person. I will also make sure all documents are up to date with the current standards.

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.