Grum Amer AA-5 N5484L

4 February 1975 · Polo, Illinois, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 4 February 1975 at about 13:30 local time, a Grum Amer AA-5 registered N5484L, operated by W D Wernberg, was involved in an accident during the takeoff phase of flight near Polo, Illinois, 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: 4 February 1975 at 13:30
Classification: Accident
Location: Polo, Illinois, United States
Nearest airport: Radio Ranch
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Grum Amer AA-5
Registration: N5484L
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: W D Wernberg
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Business
Phase of flight: Takeoff
Route: S → Rockford, Il
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-0773

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

SLOW ACCEL ON SOFT SOD RWY.COPILOT INITIATED ABORT, PLT ELECTED TO CONT TKOF.

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 3-0773, 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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