- Date
- September 8, 1971
- Place
- Minford, OH · MINFORD, OH
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4026WPiper PA-32
- Status
- Completed · report February 17, 1972
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 163490
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2146 71/9/8 MINFORD,OHIO PIPER PA-32 CR- 2 0 0 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - 0240 N4026W PX- 0 0 0 AIR TAXI-CARGO AGE 33, 2788 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 UNK/NR IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - SCIOTO COUNTY DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION COLUMBUS OHIO MINFORD,OHIO TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES IN FLIGHT: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT WEATHER - LOW CEILING WEATHER - FOG FACTOR(S) PERSONNEL - MISCELLANEOUS-PERSONNEL: OTHER WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFED BY FLIGHT SERVICE PERSONNEL, BY PHONE WEATHER FORECAST - WEATHER SLIGHTLY WORSE THAN FORECAST MISSING AIRCRAFT - LATER RECOVERED SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE PARTIAL OBSCURATION UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 1/2 MILE OR LESS NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F FOG 67 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN IFR IFR REMARKS- PLT DSNDD TO UNSAFE ALT IN ATMT TO FIND ARPT.ERRONEOUS HILL HT ON ARPT DIRECTORY DIAGRAM.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4026W
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Scioto County
N4026WRegistration cancelled Dec 17, 2014 · Piper PA-32-300Airframe modelPiper PA-32-300Engine modelLycoming TI0-540 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 N4026W · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.