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Accident · Destroyed

FAA accident report · Piper PA28140 · Bad Axe, MI · May 30, 1981

Date
May 30, 1981 · 15:45 local
Place
Bad Axe, MI
Phase of flight
Unauth Low Level Opns
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N4996F
NTSB investigation
NTSBCHI81FEC26
Reported as
Piper PA28140
Fatal injuries
0
Pilot’s flight hours
1,096 total427 in this make and model140 in the last 90 days

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What happened

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

Pilot allowed aircraft to hit high tension lines during low flight passenger ride. Airplane crashed and burned.

As the FAA filed it

PILOT ALLOWED AIRCRAFT TO HIT HIGH TENSION LINES DURING LOW FLIGHT PASSENGER RIDE. AIRPLANE CRASHED AND BURNED.

NTSB investigation

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