- Date
- July 14, 1982, 10:34 local (15:34 UTC)
- Place
- Medicine Lodge, KS
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Maneuvering
- Aircraft
- N75802Cessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 14, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19820714029369A
- Case key
- 71649
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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.
Loss of control - in flight
Judgment - poorCause
Buzzing - performedCause
Airspeed - not maintainedCause
Stall - inadvertent
In flight collision with terrain/water
Analysis
The acft stalled while the plt was buzzing his grandfather's fishing cabin on a lake.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N75802
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17267961
- Airframe hours
- 2,022
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Mcconnell Aero Club
- Registered owner
- Mcconnell Aero Club
- Departed
- 1AB · Wichita, KS
- Destination
- KSI · Wichita, KS
- Flight plan
- VFR
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
- 26
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 57 total · 53 in this make and model · 18 as pilot in command · 12 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Temperature
- 176 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.