- Date
- July 29, 2006, 08:30 local (14:30 UTC)
- Place
- American Falls, ID
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N8707UCessna 172F
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 29, 2006
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 20060729014249A
- Case key
- 64222
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Probable cause
The pilot's failure to maintain an airspeed above stall speed. Factors include his improper decision to takeoff with a tailwind, and the effects of the tailwind upon the aircraft's takeoff performance.
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 pilot took off with a tailwind of about five knots, and just after liftoff, the aircraft drifted off to the left of the runway heading. During his attempt to realign the aircraft with the runway heading, the pilot inadvertently allowed the airspeed to become too slow, and the aircraft mushed/stalled into the terrain about 200 yards off the departure end of the runway.
Factual narrative
The pilot took off with a tailwind of about five knots, and just after liftoff, the aircraft drifted off to the left of the runway heading. During his attempt to realign the aircraft with the runway heading, the pilot inadvertently allowed the airspeed to become too slow, and the aircraft mushed/stalled into the terrain about 200 yards off the departure end of the runway.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8707U
- Reported as
- Cessna 172F
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 52611
- Engine
- Continental O-300-D, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Larry A. Peterson
- Registered owner
- Larry A. Peterson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- U01 · American Falls, ID
- Destination
- LLJ · Challis, ID
- Airport
- U01 · American Falls, runway 03
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Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 57
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 3
- Flight hours
- 134 total · 101 in this make and model
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 50° at 5 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 75 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N8707U · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.