On Aug 4, 2:55*pm, "Mike" wrote:
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.

Rather makes you wonder about the quality of the run up, doesn't it?
Or the scan just before pulling a little back pressure on the yoke,
you know, that last check that makes you think this thing will fly?

I could happen to any of us, I suppose, it'll be interesting to hear
what really happened. Conditions are marginal for carb ice, aren't
they, but he might have grown some on the taxi out and not cleared
it.