Cessna 305A N5295G

18 October 1975 · Elizabethtown, North Carolina, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 18 October 1975 at about 08:30 local time, a Cessna 305A registered N5295G, operated by Civil Air Patr, was involved in an accident during the takeoff phase of flight near Elizabethtown, North Carolina, 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: 18 October 1975 at 08:30
Classification: Accident
Location: Elizabethtown, North Carolina, United States
Nearest airport: Fisher Field
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Cessna 305A
Registration: N5295G
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Civil Air Patr
Operating rule: Civil Air Patrol
Purpose of flight: Training
Phase of flight: Takeoff
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-3279

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.

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ENGINE PRIMER NOT FULLY CLOSED AND LOCKED.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 3-3279, 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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