- Date
- March 29, 1965
- Place
- Austin, TX · AUSTIN, TX
- Injuries
- 3 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N441JBeechcraft B-55
- Status
- Completed · report September 9, 1965
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 179307
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0378 65/3/29 AUSTIN TEX BEECHCRAFT B-55 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 54, 817 TIME - 1139 N441J PX- 2 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 55 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - TIMS AIRPARK TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS PILOT IN COMMAND - EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT FACTOR(S) WEATHER - LOW CEILING WEATHER - RAIN WEATHER - FOG WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFED BY FLIGHT SERVICE PERSONNEL, BY PHONE WEATHER FORECAST - FORECAST SUBSTANTIALLY CORRECT SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE OVERCAST 100 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 1 MILE OR LESS RAIN SHOWERS OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F FOG 70 WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 140 8 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN IFR VFR FLIGHT FOLLOWING SERVICE FIRE AFTER IMPACT REMARKS- COMMERCIAL PILOT RATED PASSENGER-SEAT POSITION UUKNOWN.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N441J
- Reported as
- Beechcraft B-55
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Tims Airpark
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