- Date
- July 26, 1980
- Place
- Lake City, MI · LAKE CITY, MI
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N15336Piper PA-28
- Status
- Completed · report August 16, 1980
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19800726030519A
- Case key
- 129908
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1591 80/7/26 NR.LAKE CITY,MI PIPER PA-28 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 44, 181 TIME - 1529 N15336 PX- 0 1 1 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 120 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - HOME ACRES DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION BLUFFTON,OH TRAVERSE CITY,MI TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES IN FLIGHT: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS FACTOR(S) WEATHER - LOW CEILING WEATHER - RAIN WEATHER - FOG WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFED BY FLIGHT SERVICE PERSONNEL, BY PHONE WEATHER FORECAST - UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED 400 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 2 MILES OR LESS RAIN OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F FOG 69 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN IFR VFR REMARKS- PLT DID NOT UPDATE 0818 WX BRFG FOR 1325 TKOF.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N15336
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Home Acres
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FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.