Cessna 172P accident near Hallett, OK
On December 2, 1995, a Cessna 172P (airplane) was involved in an accident near Hallett, OK. 3 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- December 2, 1995
- Place
- Hallett, OK
- Aircraft
- Cessna 172P · Airplane
- Injuries
- 3 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 36.230°N, 96.559°W
- NTSB ID
- 20001207X04991
NTSB summary
HISTORY OF FLIGHT On December 2, 1995, at 0141 central standard time, a Cessna 172P, N98003, was destroyed upon impact with static wires near Hallett, Oklahoma. The flight instructor, the commercial pilot rated student, and the passenger were fatally injured. The aircraft was registered to Christiansen Aviation, Inc. and was being operated by Spartan School of Aeronautics of Tulsa, Oklahoma, under Title 14 CFR Part 91. The flight originated from Stillwater Municipal Airport near Stillwater, Oklahoma, at 0120, with Tulsa, Oklahoma, as its intended destination. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed for the night cross country dual instructional flight for which a flight plan was not filed. The first leg of the night cross training flight began with the filing of a VFR flight plan with McAlester AFSS at approximately 2000 on the evening of December 1, 1995. The flight plan was opened with McAlester AFSS at 2035 and the airplane proceeded from Richard Lloyd Jones Jr. Airport (commonly known by the old name of Riverside Airport) to Stillwater Municipal Airport. At approximately 2105, the flight instructor called McAlester AFSS and closed their flight plan. Approximately 15 minutes later the airplane was on the ground and the fuel tanks were immediately topped off. The second leg of the flight began at approximately 0120 on December 2, 1995 with no flight plan filed. The first radar contact with the accident aircraft was due east of Stillwater Municipal Airport at 0125 at 2,600 feet MSL which is approximately 1,600 feet above the ground. Approximately two minutes later the a
Probable cause
The flight instructor's intentional low altitude flight maneuver. Factors were the static wire and the bright night condition.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
