- Date
- July 4, 1977
- Place
- Osage, IA · OSAGE, IA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N9580UAmer Avco AA-5A
- Status
- Completed · report September 1, 1977
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19770704019839A
- Case key
- 146076
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1729 77/7/4 OSAGE,IA AMER AVCO AA-5A CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 27, 814 TIME - 1715 N9580U PX- 0 0 3 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 3 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION OSAGE,IA LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: FENCE,FENCEPOSTS TAKEOFF: ABORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN PILOT IN COMMAND - DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF FACTOR(S) TERRAIN - HIGH VEGETATION WEATHER - HIGH TEMPERATURE WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFED BY FLIGHT SERVICE PERSONNEL, BY PHONE WEATHER FORECAST - UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE SCATTERED UNLIMITED VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F NONE 94 WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 230 10 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN VFR VFR REMARKS- TKOF FM ALFALFA FLD.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9580U
- Reported as
- Amer Avco AA-5A
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
N9580URegistered now · Grumman American Avn. AA-5AAirframe modelGrumman American Avn. AA-5AEngine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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FAA reports on this event · 1
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Other investigations on N9580U · 1
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