- Date
- March 10, 1982, 11:00 local (17:00 UTC)
- Place
- Heavener, OK
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N739MGCessna 172
- Weather
- Day
- Status
- Completed · report March 10, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820310003749A
- Case key
- 71000
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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
The aircraft crashed at night on rising terrain about 300 ft below the crest of a hill. The nearest weather reporting station was at mcalester, OK. The weather at mcalester was 1200 ft overcast, visibility 7 miles, ceiling ragged. The mcalester field elevation is 770 ft MSL. The elevation of the crash site was about 2100 ft MSL.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N739MG
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17270646
- Airframe hours
- 1,500
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Jim Hudson
- Registered owner
- Harold Nogle
- Departed
- Mesauite, TX
- Destination
- Fort Smith, AR
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
- 26
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Invalid Medical for flight
- Flight hours
- 106 total · 19 in this make and model · 66 as pilot in command · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.