Date:	Sunday 17 February 1974
Time:	12:23
Type:	American Aviation AA-5 Traveler
Owner/operator:	Skyclub Inc.
Registration:	N9504L
MSN:	AA5-0104
Year of manufacture:	1972
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	Williams Gateway Airport, Mesa, Maricopa County, Arizona -   United States of America
Phase:	Take off
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Williams Gateway Airport, Williams, Arizona (IWA/KIWA)
Destination airport:	Phoenix, Arizona (PHX/KPHX)
Investigating agency:	NTSB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Written off (destroyed) 17-02-1974: crashed on take off from Williams Gateway Airport, southeastern area of Mesa, Arizona, and 20 miles (32 km) southeast of Phoenix, in Maricopa County, Arizona. According to the NTSB report into the accident "Pilot leaned the fuel mixture control until the engine dropped in RPM. Despite this, the pilot continued the take off, but the aircraft was unable to climb, and collided with trees. The aircraft caught fire after impact.

Aircraft was near gross maximum take off weight, with five persons on board (pilot and four passengers). The pilot and one passenger were seriously injured, the other three passengers were uninjured. The thin air in the locality of the airport, which was at 7,200 feet amsl, may also have been a factor"

1. NTSB Identification: LAX74DUJ42 at https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=83328&key=0
2. FAA: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?omni=Home-N-Number&nNumberTxt=9504L
3. http://planecrashmap.com/list/az/

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-Nov-2016 14:17	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
15-May-2019 15:33	BEAVERSPOTTER	Updated [Cn, ]