- Date
- April 23, 1983, 17:00 local (Apr 24, 1983, 00:00 UTC)
- Place
- Kalispell, MT
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N88075Piper J3C65
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 16067
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
In flight collision with object
Object - wire,transmissionFactor
Visual lookout - inadequateCause
Hard landing
Analysis
While making an approach to a field on a ranch, the acft hit a power line on short final and crashed upright in the field. The pilot said he did not see the wire across the north approach to the field.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N88075
- Reported as
- Piper J3C65
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 15691
- Airframe hours
- 2,075
- Engine
- Continental C-68, 65 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Pete A. Carson
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Airport
- runway 13, grass/turf
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.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 41
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Multi-engine land, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Front
- Flight hours
- 3,219 total · 150 in this make and model · 3,169 as pilot in command · 51 in the last 90 days · 1 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dawn
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 15 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None