Cessna 172M N1502V

Summary

On 2 September 2007 at about 20:08 local time, a Cessna 172M registered N1502V, operated by Waylon D. Kirtley, was involved in an accident near Union Star, Missouri, United States. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was destroyed. The NTSB has published a probable cause for this accident; it is quoted in full below.

Date

2 September 2007 at 20:08

Classification

Accident

Location

Union Star, Missouri, United States

Coordinates

39.7719, -94.9097

Aircraft

Cessna 172M

Registration

N1502V

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Waylon D. Kirtley

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

St. Joseph → Unknown

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

VMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

CHI07LA288

1 person died.

The student pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed and the subsequent inadvertent stall while buzzing residences. Contributing to the accident was the pilot performing buzzing maneuvers.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record. This site does not paraphrase or interpret it.

Read the full NTSB narrative

The student pilot departed on the solo training flight with instructions to practice ground reference maneuvers, stalls, and steep turns in the local practice area. The accident site was not located near the practice area. Several witnesses reported seeing the airplane circling, climbing, descending, and banking steeply at low altitudes prior to the accident. Witnesses reported the airplane was in a steep left bank when the nose dropped, and the airplane impacted power lines and the terrain. The student pilot had a total of 22.7 hours of flight time. A friend and a relative of the pilot reportedly lived in the area of the accident site.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.