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| NTSB Identification: MIA00FA201. |
| Accident occurred Tuesday, July 04, 2000 at MURFREESBORO, TN |
| Aircraft: Cessna 152, registration: N89043 |
| Injuries: 1 Fatal, 1 Serious |
| Event: 20001212X21529 Status: Preliminary |
| NTSB Preliminary Narrative (6120.19A) |
| On July 4, 2000, about 0750 central daylight time, a Cessna 152, N89043, registered to and operated by SDS Inc., as a Title 14 CFR Part 91 |
| instructional flight, crashed on takeoff from Murfreesboro Municipal Airport, Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Visual meteorological conditions |
| prevailed, and no flight plan was filed. The commercial-rated flight instructor was fatally injured, and the student received serious injuries. The |
| aircraft incurred substantial damage. The flight was originating at the time of the accident. |
| A witness on the ground stated that the accident airplane took off to the south, and the engine sounded as if it was laboring during the climb. |
| The witness further stated that it appeared as if the airplane was not gaining altitude. The airplane leveled off and entered a hard right turn and |
| the engine sputtered, almost as if it started and stopped, but the witness said he could not be sure if it actually stopped. As the airplane was in |
| the bank, it leveled out slightly, and somehow missed the trees and headed in the direction of the ball field. The witness said that he was certain |
| the engine was operating when the airplane hit. |
| A student pilot who was taxiing an airplane, about midfield on the airport, said that he noticed the accident airplane lift off at about the 3/4 |
| length of the runway. According to the student, it was slow, at an altitude of about 100 feet, and was not climbing any higher. The student |
| further stated that he saw the nose pitch up, and then lower. The airplane then entered a shallow turn to the right, and then he heard the pilot of |
| the accident airplane say over the Unicom frequency that he had an emergency and was turning back to land on runway 36. The student said |
| he lost sight of the airplane as it went behind the trees. |
| The airplane clipped the roof of a house, crashed on a front lawn in a residential neighborhood, and a postimpact fire ensued. Two witnesses |
| on the ground at the accident location stated that they both heard the engine operating just prior to impact. |
| Occurrences and Sequence of Events |
| No Occurrence records were found for: |
| NTSB Identification: MIA00FA201 |
| Event ID: 20001212X21529 |
| Aircraft Key: 1 |
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