Plane Crash List

Cessna 172 M N6982H

29 August 1985 · Gravois Mills, Missouri, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 29 August 1985 at about 16:10 local time, a Cessna 172 M registered N6982H was involved in an accident near Gravois Mills, Missouri, United States. 4 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date
at 16:10
Classification
Accident
Location
Gravois Mills, Missouri, United States
Nearest airport
Wulff Harbor (04K)
Coordinates
Not recorded
Aircraft
Cessna 172 M
Registration
N6982H
Category
Airplane
Engines
1
Operator
Not recorded
Operating rule
Part 91: General Aviation
Purpose of flight
Personal
Phase of flight
Not recorded
Route
Unknown → East St. Louis
Aircraft damage
Substantial
Weather
VMC
Light
Dawn
NTSB number
MKC85LA196

People

Nobody was injured.

On board Died Serious Minor Uninjured
4 0 0 0 4

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

THE PLT REPORTS THAT HE BEGAN HIS TAKEOFF ON RWY 07 WHICH IS 2550 FT LONG, HAS AN ASPHALT SURFACE AND A DOWNHILL SLOPE. PLT SAID THE RWY IS ROUGH. HE SAID THE ACFT DID NOT ACHIEVE THE SPEED DESIRED AND HE REDUCED POWER TO ABORT. HE THEN DECIDED TO ATTEMPT THE TAKEOFF AGAIN AND READVANCED THE THROTTLE. THE ACFT BECAME AIRBORNE BUT STALLED AND CRASHED INTO TREES OFF THE END OF THE RWY.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

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