- Date
- April 15, 1978
- Place
- Missing Aircraft · MISSING AIRCRAFT, UN
- Injuries
- 3 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N3540CCessna 170B
- Status
- Completed · report June 15, 1978
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19780415030049A
- Case key
- 141942
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1554 78/4/15 MISSING AIRCRAFT CESSNA 170B CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 41, UNK/NR TIME - UNK/NR N3540C PX- 2 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, UNK/NR IN DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION ANCHORAGE,AK HOMER,AK TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION MISSING AIRCRAFT,NOT RECOVERED UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED REMARKS- ACFT DMG AND INJURY INDEX PRESUMED,PILOTS BODY RECOVERED 6/17/78.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3540C
- Reported as
- Cessna 170B
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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FAA reports on this event · 1
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