- Date
- July 17, 1988, 00:00 local (06:00 UTC)
- Place
- Santa Teresa, NM
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N34338Cessna 177RG
- Weather
- Not reported
- Status
- Completed · report April 14, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19880717026809A
- Case key
- 17509
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
An unknown person or persons took a Cessna 177RG from a small airport near the mexican border, without permission. State police found it crashed in a field 2 miles southwest of Santa Teresa airport, and notified the owner. No witnesses have been found to reveal the nature of the accident or the identity of the pilot. Injury index presumed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N34338
- Reported as
- Cessna 177RG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 177RG0990
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D, 200 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Martin D. Cole
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- 5T6
- Flight plan
- Unknown
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
Weather
- Conditions
- Not reported
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.