- Date
- October 13, 1984, 17:30 local (21:30 UTC)
- Place
- Miles City, FL
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N8336BCessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19841013055679A
- Case key
- 31302
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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 collided with heavy brush and the ground during a takeoff from a wet sod rwy. The plt reported that the rwy hadbeen furrowed by wild hogs and he and his 13 year old son had tried to repair the damage prior to takeoff. A takeoff wasattempted using soft fld technique according to the plt. According to a witness the takeoff was begun from an intermediate point on the rwy rather than the end. NTSB investigators failed to find furrows or repairs on the rwy when checked 2 days after the accident.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8336B
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 361736
- Airframe hours
- 3,952
- Engine
- Continental O-300, 145 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Gordon D. Maddox
- Registered owner
- Kenneth W. Poteet
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- 100 hour · June 26, 1984 · 61 hours before
- Departed
- 08X · Miles City, FL
- Destination
- 6X6 · Homestead, FL
- Airport
- OBX · Calusa Ranch, runway 14, 1,800 × 75 ft, grass/turf
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
- 42
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 12,400 total · 2,800 in this make and model · 3,250 as pilot in command · 400 in the last 90 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 220° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 70 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- TMB, 48 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.