Taylorcraft DCO-65 N50702

11 September 1966 · Cottage Grove Wis, Wisconsin, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 11 September 1966 at about 13:15 local time, a Taylorcraft DCO-65 registered N50702 was involved in an accident during the takeoff phase of flight near Cottage Grove Wis, Wisconsin, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 11 September 1966 at 13:15
Classification: Accident
Location: Cottage Grove Wis, Wisconsin, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Taylorcraft DCO-65
Registration: N50702
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Practice
Phase of flight: Takeoff
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-2534

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
1	0	0	0	1

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

PILOT ATTEMPTED TAKEOFF FROM STRIP COVERED WITH CLOVER 18 INCHES HIGH.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

Where

Approximate

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43.0761, -89.1996
Approximate. The NTSB did not record coordinates, so this marker sits at the centre of Cottage Grove Wis, Wisconsin, United States, not at the accident site. How this is worked out.

Source

NTSB record 3-2534, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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