- Date
- July 9, 1967
- Place
- Wheeling, IL · WHEELING, IL
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N42978Piper J3C-65
- Status
- Completed · report December 19, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 115920
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0764 67/7/9 WHEELING,ILL PIPER J3C-65 CR- 1 1 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 18, 80 TOTAL TIME - 1404 N42978 PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP HOURS, 41 IN TYPE, NOT DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - PAL-WAUKEE TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED REMARKS- ACFT WAS TURNING TO BASE LEG FROM DOWNWIND LEG.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N42978
- Reported as
- Piper J3C-65
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Pal-Waukee
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.