- Date
- August 21, 1965
- Place
- Booker, TX · BOOKER, TX
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N256TPiper PA-18
- Status
- Completed · report September 15, 1965
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 175913
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2147 65/8/21 BOOKER TEX PIPER PA-18 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL STUDENT, AGE 37, 350 TIME - 1850 N256T PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 12 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - PAINE TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) SYSTEMS - FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS: ELEVATOR AND ELEVATOR TAB CONTROL SYSTEM PERSONNEL - MAINTENANCE,SERVICING,INSPECTION: INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION REMARKS- UP ELEVATOR CABLE TURNBUCKLE CAME UNSCREWED. CABLE BEACME
Aircraft
- Registration
- N256T
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Paine
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