- Date
- February 25, 1968
- Place
- Douglasville, GA · DOUGLASVILLE, GA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N72583Cessna 140
- Status
- Completed · report June 17, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 111519
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1120 68/2/25 DOUGLASVILLE,GA CESSNA 140 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 33, 550 TIME - 1130 N72583 PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 9 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - WOODS TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION OVERSHOOT LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN COLLIDED WITH: TREES TAKEOFF: ABORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND SPEED PILOT IN COMMAND - DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND PILOT IN COMMAND - SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND REMARKS- 120 DEG QUARTERING TAIL WIND 10K. ABORTED AFTER INITIATING GO-AROUND.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N72583
- Reported as
- Cessna 140
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Woods
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