Mooney M20E N79840

2 November 1980 · Chicago, Illinois, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 2 November 1980 at about 10:42 local time, a Mooney M20E registered N79840 was involved in an accident during the takeoff phase of flight near Chicago, Illinois, 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: 2 November 1980 at 10:42
Classification: Accident
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Nearest airport: Midway
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Mooney M20E
Registration: N79840
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Takeoff
Route: S → Paducah, Ky
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-3544

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

TO AVOID FUEL THEFT, ACFT WAS NOT REFUELED AFTR EACH FLT DRG PREV 3 MONTHS.

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 3-3544, 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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