- Date
- December 6, 1967
- Place
- Lowell, MI · LOWELL, MI
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8071YPiper PA-30
- Status
- Completed · report February 20, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 113578
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0977 67/12/6 LOWELL,MICH PIPER PA-30 CR- 1 0 0 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - 1830 N8071Y PX- 0 0 0 AIR TAXI-PASSG AGE 45, 2486 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 121 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED LANDING: INITIAL APPROACH PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS PILOT IN COMMAND - SPATIAL DISORIENTATION FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - PILOT FATIGUE REMARKS- ACFT CRASH NEAR ILS OUTER MARKER.PLT HAD FLOWN OVER TWO HRS BEFORE ACCIDENT IN ACTUAL IFR WEATHER.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8071Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-30
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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