"Peter Dohm" wrote in message
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"Mike" wrote in message
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Taking off with your wife and daughter would have to be pretty high on
the list:

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20080731X01135

The plane was a '59 145hp 172. DA would have been around 3,500. You can
draw your own conclusions.


Not much there to draw any conclusion from, beyond the assertion about the
certificate issue. There was plenty of runway for the conditions; so if
the fuel was good, the prop was not repitched for some special purpose,
and the engine continued to run correctly we would all have none the
wiser.

And yes, am familiar with the model and vintage, although not the same
tail number.

Actually there's quite a bit. The plane appears to have been transferred in
2004, so it's reasonable to assume the new owner (who at one time was issued
a student certificate) had attempted to gain a PP-SEL and never completed.
If you want to go down the road of conjecture, someone who has such a
blatant disregard for the FAR possibly didn't have a current annual on the
plane either and possibly wasn't worried too much about weight and balance,
density altitude, or any other pesky little detail. The full NTSB report
should be even more interesting.