Cessna 551 N502CL

Summary

On 1 April 2002 at about 11:15 local time, a Cessna 551 registered N502CL, operated by Northern Illinois Flight Center Inc, was involved in an accident near Lake in Hills, Illinois, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

1 April 2002 at 11:15

Classification

Accident

Location

Lake in Hills, Illinois, United States

Nearest airport

Lake In the Hills (3CK)

Coordinates

42.1803, -88.3398

Aircraft

Cessna 551

Registration

N502CL

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

Northern Illinois Flight Center Inc

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Positioning

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Lake in Hills → Wichita

Aircraft damage

Substantial

Weather

VMC

Light

Dawn

NTSB number

CHI02LA115

Nobody was injured.

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 airplane struck a deer during an aborted takeoff. The pilot stated that, during the takeoff roll, he and the second pilot saw five deer on the north side of the runway. He said that they aborted the takeoff but during roll out, at 60 kts, another deer, that was on the south side of the runway, ran into the path of the airplane. The pilot stated that the takeoff was was being performed at early dawn.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.