Excerpt From FAA Accident Report
Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2011 10:22 amEYEWITNESS STATEMENT
AIRCRAFT: CESSNA 172
PILOT: 30 YRS OLD, CFI, IR
FATALITIES: None
DAMAGE: Substantial
DATE OF ACCIDENT: July 10 1982
WITNESS: Line attendant at airport
Pilot came to airport at 9am, 10 Jul 1982. Line boy reports padlock on his hangar door was so rusted he had to break it off with a 10# ball-peen hammer.
Also had to inflate all 3 tires and scrape pigeon droppings off wind screen. After several attempts to drain fuel strainers, pilot finally got what looked like fuel out of the wings sumps. Couldn
AIRCRAFT: CESSNA 172
PILOT: 30 YRS OLD, CFI, IR
FATALITIES: None
DAMAGE: Substantial
DATE OF ACCIDENT: July 10 1982
WITNESS: Line attendant at airport
Pilot came to airport at 9am, 10 Jul 1982. Line boy reports padlock on his hangar door was so rusted he had to break it off with a 10# ball-peen hammer.
Also had to inflate all 3 tires and scrape pigeon droppings off wind screen. After several attempts to drain fuel strainers, pilot finally got what looked like fuel out of the wings sumps. Couldn
