- Date
- November 24, 1965
- Place
- Quartzsite, AZ · QUARTZSITE, AZ
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N2924PPiper PA-22
- Status
- Completed · report August 10, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 175023
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-1055 65/11/24 NR.QUARTZSITE ARIZ PIPER PA-22 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 54, 110 TIME - UNK/NR N2924P PX- 1 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, ALL IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - QUARTZSITE TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - SPATIAL DISORIENTATION MISSING AIRCRAFT - LATER RECOVERED REMARKS- RECOVERY DATE 12-17-66.ACFT CRASHED AT NIGHT ON DESERT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2924P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Quartzsite
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