- Date
- December 5, 1970
- Place
- Aurora, CO · AURORA, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9698MMooney M20F
- Status
- Completed · report September 20, 1971
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 159123
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-4355 70/12/5 AURORA,COLO MOONEY M20F CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 2010 N9698M PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP 38, 7866 TOTAL HOURS, 600 DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - BUCKLEY DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION KEARNEY NEB DENVER COLO TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE COLLIDED WITH: WIRES/POLES LANDING: FINAL APPROACH PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - WATER IN FUEL PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE REMARKS- HIT POWER CABLES LANDED W/O FURTHER INCIDENT.TEA CUP OF WATER DRAINED FROM L FUEL TANK SUMP
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9698M
- Reported as
- Mooney M20F
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Buckley
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Other investigations on N9698M · 1
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