- Date
- March 10, 1984
- Place
- Willcox, AZ
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N52488Cessna 182P
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Not reported
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19840310005529A
- Case key
- 24199
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
An unknown person attempted to steal the acft. The acft was taxied out from its tie-down spot & accelerated down the mile-long dirt rwy. It failed to become airborne, impacted 5 fences, a power pole & came to rest inverted. The injury index is presumed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N52488
- Reported as
- Cessna 182P
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 18262640
- Airframe hours
- 1,345
- Engine
- Continental O-470-R25A, 230 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Part 91
- Registered owner
- Marvin W. Motes
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · March 20, 1983 · 107 hours before
- Airport
- Motes Airstrip, runway 26, 5,280 × 80 ft, dirt
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
- Medical
- Unknown, Unknown
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Not reported
- Visibility
- 50 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N52488 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.