Accident Mooney M20C Ranger N9753M,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 10248
 
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Date:Saturday 1 September 1979
Time:23:55
Type:Silhouette image of generic M20P model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Mooney M20C Ranger
Owner/operator:Oregon State University
Registration: N9753M
MSN: 670047
Year of manufacture:1967
Fatalities:Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Category:Accident
Location:Newberg, OR -   United States of America
Phase: Take off
Nature:Private
Departure airport:Hillsboro, OR
Destination airport:Albany, OR
Investigating agency: NTSB
Confidence Rating: Accident investigation report completed and information captured
Narrative:
Struck trees and crashed in zero visibility conditions.

Cause: continued flight in forecast marginal VFR conditions.

Accident investigation:
  
Investigating agency: NTSB
Report number: SEA79FA054
Status: Investigation completed
Duration: 1 month
Download report: Final report

Sources:

NTSB
https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=34798&key=0

History of this aircraft

Other occurrences involving this aircraft
23 February 2021 N3254F Private 0 East of Livermore Municipal Airport (LVK/KLVK), Livermore, CA sub

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
25-Feb-2008 12:00 ASN archive Added
24-Feb-2021 08:10 RobertMB Updated [Aircraft type, Cn]
24-Feb-2021 08:32 harro Updated [Operator, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]

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