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Accident · Substantial damage

FAA accident report · Piper J3C-65 · Crawfordsville, AR · June 4, 1979

Date
June 4, 1979 · 16:30 local
Place
Crawfordsville, AR
Phase of flight
In Traffic Pattern-Circling
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Substantial damage
Aircraft
N7900A
NTSB investigation
NTSBFTW79FPG44
Reported as
Piper J3C65
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
2,732 total2,832 in this make and model51 in the last 90 days

From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

What happened

The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.

Pilot lost control of acrft during a steep bank at a low altitude near a private strip he intended to land on.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT LOST CONTROL OF ACRFT DURING A STEEP BANK AT A LOW ALTITUDE NEAR A PRIVATE STRIP HE INTENDED TO LAND ON.

NTSB investigation

The NTSB’s investigation of this event, with its probable cause and findings. Matched to this report by N-number and date.