- Date
- April 23, 1966
- Place
- Clarendon, TX · CLARENDON, TX
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N235RLear Jet 23
- Status
- Completed · report August 21, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 172503
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-1179 66/4/23 CLARENDON TEX LEAR JET 23 CR- 2 0 0 INSTRUCTIONAL AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 1238 N235R PX- 0 0 0 CHECK 28, 2554 TOTAL HOURS, 380 DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - CLARENDON MUNI TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT-LOSS OF CTRL IN TURBLNT,INSTRMENT,CONDITIONS REMARKS- SUSPECT FAILURE BOTH GYRO HORIZONS
Aircraft
- Registration
- N235R
- Reported as
- Lear Jet 23
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- turbo jet
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Clarendon Muni
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