Cessna 177RG N1945Q

7 July 1973 · New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 7 July 1973 at about 12:17 local time, a Cessna 177RG registered N1945Q, operated by Clark Aviation, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near New Bedford, Massachusetts, 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: 7 July 1973 at 12:17
Classification: Accident
Location: New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
Nearest airport: New Bedford
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Cessna 177RG
Registration: N1945Q
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Clark Aviation
Operating rule: Fixed Base Operator
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Oneonta, Ny → Fall River, Mass
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-1971

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

UNSAFE GR WARN PLT ELECTED TO LND ON GRASS AREA.SAFE GR LGT BULB INOP.

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 3-1971, 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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