- Date
- November 13, 1965
- Place
- Timbalier Bay, LA · TIMBALIER BAY, LA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N3690PPiper PA-18
- Status
- Completed · report December 29, 1965
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 174588
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3345 65/11/13 TIMBALIER BAY LA PIPER PA-18 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 46, 182 TIME - 1430 N3690P PX- 0 0 1 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 32 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION GEAR COLLAPSED TAKEOFF: ABORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - FAILED TO USE ALL AVAILABLE RUNWAY FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - OVERLOAD FAILURE TERRAIN - ROUGH WATER REMARKS- PILOT STARTED TAKEOFF TOO CLOSE TO OPEN GULF STRIKING SURF, SUFFICIENT SMOOTH WATER AVAILABLE.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3690P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
N3690PRegistration cancelled Jan 12, 2011 · Piper PA-18Airframe modelPiper PA-18Engine modelContinental C90 series
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.