- Date
- May 24, 1979
- Place
- Akron, CO · AKRON, CO
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N46288Cessna 172
- Status
- Completed · report August 30, 1979
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19790524009369A
- Case key
- 135768
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1535 79/5/24 AKRON,CO CESSNA 172 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 23, 476 TIME - 2112 N46288 PX- 0 0 3 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 310 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - AKRON DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION AKRON,CO ENGLEWOOD,CO TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION NOSE OVER/DOWN TAKEOFF: ABORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND PILOT IN COMMAND - DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - DOWNWIND
Aircraft
- Registration
- N46288
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Akron
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FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N46288 · 2
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