- Date
- May 18, 1988, 18:45 local (23:45 UTC)
- Place
- Le Flore, OK
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N212FRCessna 172P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 19, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 22550
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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 acft was being used to fly over a wooded area & spot cattle for psnl on the ground. After spotting cattle for about 2 hrs, the plt was flying at low alt when the acft suddenly rolled into a steep bank, then the nose dropped & the acft crashed in a steep dscnt. A witness rprtd the eng revved up just before impact. Several tree branches were found at the crash site that had been smoothly severed by the prop. No preimpact part failure or malfunction was found. Drg toxicology studies of the occupants, low lvls of cocaine & marijuana were detected. Tests of the plt's urine showed a marijuana metabolite level of 79 ng/ml & a cocaine lvl of 0.13 mcg/ml. His blood had a carboxy-thc lvl of 12 ng/ml. Tests of the pax's urine showed a marijuana metabolite level of 56 ng/ml & a cocaine level of 0.2 mcg/ml.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N212FR
- Reported as
- Cessna 172P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17275238
- Airframe hours
- 4,220
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-D2J, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Other work use · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Wayne T. Abbott
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · March 26, 1988
- Departed
- 6F1 · Talihina, OK
- Destination
- RKR · Poteau, OK
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
- 23
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Toxicology
- Performed
- Flight hours
- 163 total · 89 in this make and model · 113 as pilot in command · 31 in the last 90 days · 7 in the last 30 days · 2 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 130° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- MLC, 35 nm away