- Date
- October 21, 1979
- Place
- Long Rapids, MI · LONG RAPIDS, MI
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N98967Piper PA-12
- Status
- Completed · report December 14, 1979
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19791021030509A
- Case key
- 133058
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3215 79/10/21 LONG RAPIDS,MI PIPER PA-12 CR- 0 1 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 44, 486 TIME - 1700 N98967 PX- 0 0 1 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 453 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION LONG RAPIDS,MI LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION STALL: MUSH TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
Aircraft
- Registration
- N98967
- Reported as
- Piper PA-12
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Grass Field
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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.
Other investigations on N98967 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.
NTSB CHI84FA343Accident · 2 fatalField investigationFinal reportAlpena, MIWitnesses stated that the acft flew at a very low altitude over the lake performing what appeared to be a series of stalls and recoveries with the acft climbing steeply to aprx 150 ft above the lake and then dropping sharply back down within a few feet of the…NTSB CHI69D0423Accident · No injuriesClosedAlpena, MI