- Date
- September 10, 1979
- Place
- Elkins, WV · ELKINS, WV
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N80979Cessna 172
- Status
- Completed · report January 21, 1980
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19790910036839A
- Case key
- 133105
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3299 79/9/10 NR.ELKINS,WV CESSNA 172 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 65, 2450 TIME - 2100 N80979 PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 82 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION ELKINS,WV HARRISBURG,VA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED REMARKS- ACFT OBSERVED TO CIRCLE THREE TIMES AND THEN PITCH NOSE DOWN.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N80979
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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FAA reports on this event · 1
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