- Date
- May 4, 1968
- Place
- Lubbock, TX · LUBBOCK, TX
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N8440LCessna 172
- Status
- Completed · report June 12, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 110741
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1105 68/5/4 LUBBOCK,TEX CESSNA 172 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 22, 138 TIME - 1200 N8440L PX- 0 0 2 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 21 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - TOWN-COUNTRY TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: DITCHES TAKEOFF: ABORTED NOSE OVER/DOWN TAKEOFF: ABORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8440L
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Town-Country
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