- Date
- March 7, 1982, 13:15 local (19:15 UTC)
- Place
- Houston, TX
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N1117UCessna 172M
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 7, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 71087
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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
During the demonstration of a short field takeoff the aircraft's tail lowered after encountering a moderate dip at a runway intersection. The tail tie-down ring snagged a runway light cable which had been uncovered by recent rains. The cable broke at one side of the runway and the aircraft became uncontrollable. The pilot aborted the takeoff on a soft part of the runway and the aircraft tipped inverted.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1117U
- Reported as
- Cessna 172M
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17266852
- Airframe hours
- 1,298
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-E2D, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Civil Air Patrol
- Registered owner
- J.R. Traylor
- Departed
- T17 · Houston, TX
- Destination
- T17 · Houston, TX
- Airport
- T17 · Weiser Airpark, runway 34, 2,000 × 100 ft, grass/turf
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
- Age
- 47
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 1,718 total · 152 in this make and model · 78 in the last 90 days · 3 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 70° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Temperature
- 135 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- IAH