- Date
- August 10, 1965
- Place
- Ketchikan, AK · KETCHIKAN, AK
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N5161HPiper PA-14
- Status
- Completed · report September 21, 1965
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 176548
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2261 65/8/10 NR.KETCHIKAN ALAS PIPER PA-14 CR- 0 0 1 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 46, 7179 TIME - 0635 N5161H PX- 0 0 0 AIR TAXI-PASSG TOTAL HOURS, 5000 IN DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: CONTROLLED TAKEOFF: ABORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - ICE-CARBURETOR MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - ANTI-ICING/DEICING EQUIPMENT-IMPROPER OPERATION OF/OR FAILED TO USE PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE REMARKS- FLOAT-EQUIPPED AIRCRAFT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5161H
- Reported as
- Piper PA-14
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
N5161HRegistration cancelled Oct 27, 2014 · Piper PA-14Airframe modelPiper PA-14Engine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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Other investigations on N5161H · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.