- Date
- June 21, 1968
- Place
- New Bern, NC · NEW BERN, NC
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N5355YPiper PA-23
- Status
- Completed · report October 31, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 109529
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2976 68/6/21 NEW BERN,NC PIPER PA-23 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 43, 1620 TIME - 0323 N5355Y PX- 0 0 0 BUSINESS TOTAL HOURS, 120 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - SIMMONS-NOTT TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED FIRE AFTER IMPACT REMARKS- ARTERIOSCLEROTIC HEART CONDITION.BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL 130 MG PCT,O.1 PCT LIBRIUM.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5355Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Simmons-Nott
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