- Date
- August 15, 1965
- Place
- Cottonwood, MN · COTTONWOOD, MN
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N4038VCessna 170
- Status
- Completed · report December 23, 1965
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 176214
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3294 65/8/15 NR.COTTONWOOD MINN CESSNA 170 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL STUDENT, AGE 42, 61 TOTAL TIME - 1730 N4038V PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP HOURS, ALL IN TYPE, NOT DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: FENCE,FENCEPOSTS TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED FACTOR(S) TERRAIN - HIGH VEGETATION REMARKS- TAKEOFF ATTEMPTED FROM ROLLING ALFALFA FIELD.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4038V
- Reported as
- Cessna 170
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
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