- Date
- December 13, 1966
- Place
- Muskegon, MI · MUSKEGON, MI
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4194PPiper PA-23
- Status
- Completed · report April 6, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 119914
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-4113 66/12/13 NR.MUSKEGON MICH PIPER PA-23 CR- 0 0 1 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, AGE 37, 6486 TIME - 1330 N4194P PX- 0 0 0 FERRY TOTAL HOURS, 330 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION FIRE OR EXPLOSION: IN FLIGHT IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE DITCHING LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON WATER REMARKS- HEAVY SMOKE AND INTENSE HEAT FROM NOSE SECTION. AIRCRAFT SANK IN LAKE AND WAS NOT RECOVERED.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4194P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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