MKC83LA191 · Cessna 177B
Cessna 177B · Accident: loss of control in flight during initial climb
From an unrecorded airport to Muscatine Municipal Airport (MUT)
Event
- NTSB case
- MKC83LA191
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Completed
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna 177B
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 177
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N1347C
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo Muscatine Municipal Airport (MUT), Muscatine, IA
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Part 91: General Aviation
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Initial climb
- First occurrenceThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Loss of control in flight
- Also codedOther events the NTSB coded in the sequence, such as a wire strike after a loss of power. Flight Findings uses them for its kinds of event. Glossary
- Stall/mush
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Pilot in command › Airspeed, inadequate
- Pilot in command › Proper alignment, not maintained
- Pilot in command › Stall/mush, inadvertent
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
THE PLT STATED THAT HE HAD FLOWN INTO & OUT OF THE ARPT NUMEROUS TIMES. HE SAID THAT DURING A TAKEOFF, THE ACFT NORMALLY BECAME AIRBORNE AFTER ABOUT 900 FT OF GROUND ROLL. ALSO, HE SAID THAT ON THIS FLT WITH 4 PASSENGERS, THE ACFT LIFTED OFF AT ABOUT THE SAME AREA. AFTER LIFT-OFF, THE PLANE CLIMBED APRX 20FT, THEN SETTLED BACK ON THE SURFACE, TURNED LEFT & DEPARTED THE RWY. IT CONTINUED BESIDE & BEYOND THE RWY, WENT OVER A BANK & CAME TO REST IN A CREEK.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MKC83LA191
- Event ID
- 20001214X44287
- Case number
- MKC83LA191
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: local date, investigation status. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date; the NTSB stores the UTC date 1983-08-13.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 83304182f0e3dcb46d9d6a3809242b479b28485001ce5509ab1cc7388ea34b0a; retrieved 2026-09-23T21:33:58.451Z.