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Accident · Destroyed

FAA accident report · Cessna 180 · Millinocket, ME · November 11, 1981

Date
November 11, 1981 · 14:30 local
Place
Millinocket, ME
Phase of flight
Unauth Low Level Opns
Operating rules
Air taxi and commuter (Part 135)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N7955V
NTSB investigation
NTSBNYC81FNC01
Reported as
Cessna 180
Reported engine
Continental O470*
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
15,000 total200 in this make and model200 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Pilot trying to stay below clouds in lowering weather conditions allowed aircraft to crash into trees.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT TRYING TO STAY BELOW CLOUDS IN LOWERING WEATHER CONDITIONS ALLOWED AIRCRAFT TO CRASH INTO TREES.

NTSB investigation

The NTSB’s investigation of this event, with its probable cause and findings. Matched to this report by N-number and date.

Other reports on N7955V · 3

Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.