- Date
- October 13, 1968
- Place
- Linthicum, MD · LINTHICUM, MD
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6274WPiper PA-28
- Status
- Completed · report December 26, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 107960
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3717 68/10/13 LINTHICUM,MD PIPER PA-28 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 44, 3200 TIME - 2141 N6274W PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 75 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - FRIENDSHIP TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES LANDING: FINAL APPROACH PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER IFR OPERATION FACTOR(S) WEATHER - LOW CEILING WEATHER - FOG WEATHER BRIEFING - UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED WEATHER FORECAST - FORECAST SUBSTANTIALLY CORRECT SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE OVERCAST 300 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 3/4 MILE OR LESS NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F FOG 63 WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 50 3 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN BELOW MINIMUMS IFR REMARKS- PLT DESCENDED BELOW PUBLISHED APPCH MINIMUMS. ACFT NOT EQUIPPED WITH GLIDE SLOPE RCVR.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6274W
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Friendship
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Other investigations on N6274W · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.
NTSB LAX89FA276Accident · 2 fatalField investigationFinal reportToms Place, CAFailure of the pilot to attain sufficient altitude to clear terrain obstructions before entering a high elevation basin. Contributing to the accident was a high density altitude which reduced the aircraft's climb performance to less than the rate of climb of…NTSB MKC66D0379Accident · No injuriesClosedSo St Paul, MN