- Date
- January 25, 1967
- Place
- Sapphire, NC · SAPPHIRE, NC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6072TCessna 150
- Status
- Completed · report June 19, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 118691
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0236 67/1/25 SAPPHIRE,NC CESSNA 150 CR- 0 0 1 INSTRUCTIONAL STUDENT, AGE 24, 72 TOTAL TIME - 1300 N6072T PX- 0 0 0 TRAINING HOURS, ALL IN TYPE, NOT DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - SAPPHIRE VALLEY TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION OVERSHOOT LANDING: FINAL APPROACH COLLIDED WITH: DITCHES LANDING: ROLL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,AND ALTITUDE FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - RUNWAY CLOSED MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - DOWNWIND REMARKS- PLT LANDED ON GOLF COURSE THAT WAS FORMERLY AN ARPT.HAD BEEN TOLD OF CONDITIONS AND NOT TO LAND.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6072T
- Reported as
- Cessna 150
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Sapphire Valley
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