- Date
- August 31, 1969
- Place
- Decatur, IL · DECATUR, IL
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N1745PPiper PA-22
- Status
- Completed · report December 10, 1969
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 158133
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2561 69/8/31 DECATUR,ILL PIPER PA-22 CR- 0 0 1 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - 1410 N1745P PX- 0 1 1 DEMONSTRATION AGE 54, 12794 TOTAL DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 HOURS, 503 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - DECATUR DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION DECATUR,ILL DECATUR,ILL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION LANDING: FINAL APPROACH GEAR COLLAPSED LANDING: ROLL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - FUEL EXHAUSTION FACTOR(S) TERRAIN - ROUGH/UNEVEN MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - OVERLOAD FAILURE COMPLETE POWER LOSS - COMPLETE ENGINE FAILURE/FLAMEOUT-1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND REMARKS- LANDED IN PLOWED FLD. SALES MGR TOLD PLT SUFFICIENT FUEL WAS ON BOARD.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1745P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Decatur
N1745PRegistration cancelled Aug 10, 2012 · Piper PA-22-150Airframe modelPiper PA-22-150Engine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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.
Other investigations on N1745P · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.