- Date
- February 20, 1975
- Place
- Grant Park, IL · GRANT PARK, IL
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N7161UMooney M20C
- Status
- Completed · report April 28, 1975
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19750220004779A
- Case key
- 147792
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0468 75/2/20 GRANT PARK,IL MOONEY M20C CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 24, 718 TIME - 0715 N7161U PX- 0 0 3 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 75 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - MUSSMAN RLA DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION GRANT PARK,IL CHICAGO,IL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: FENCE,FENCEPOSTS TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,ALTITUDE OR CLEARANCE PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO ABORT TAKEOFF REMARKS- HIT TOP WIRE ON 4FT FENCE.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7161U
- Reported as
- Mooney M20C
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Mussman Rla
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Other investigations on N7161U · 1
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