- Date
- July 8, 1968
- Place
- Salt Lake City, UT · SALT LAKE CITY, UT
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N2590YCessna 172
- Status
- Completed · report August 8, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 109798
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1910 68/7/8 SALT LAKE CITY,UT CESSNA 172 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 46, 408 TIME - 1640 N2590Y PX- 0 0 3 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 4 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - UTAH CENTRAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: DITCHES TAKEOFF: ABORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - INCORRECT TRIM SETTING FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - CHECKLIST-FAILED TO USE REMARKS- ELEVATOR TRIM WAS FOUND APPROX 5 DEG NOSE DOWN.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2590Y
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Utah Central
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Other investigations on N2590Y · 2
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