- Date
- June 9, 1966
- Place
- Lubbock, TX · LUBBOCK, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5951YPiper PA-23
- Status
- Completed · report July 8, 1966
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 171203
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1230 66/6/9 LUBBOCK TEX PIPER PA-23 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 33, 2528 TIME - 0122 N5951Y PX- 0 0 0 BUSINESS TOTAL HOURS, 2018 IN DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - TOWN-COUNTRY TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION OVERSHOOT LANDING: ROLL GEAR COLLAPSED LANDING: ROLL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - SELECTED WRONG RUNWAY RELATIVE TO EXISTING WIND FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - DOWNWIND WEATHER - THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - OVERLOAD FAILURE SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE OVERCAST 5000 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE RELATIVE BEARING OF WIND NONE LEFT QUARTERING TAIL WIND 203-247 DEGREES TEMPERATURE-F WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES 72 50 WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS 44 VFR TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN NONE REMARKS- NIGHT OPERATION-SHORT RUNWAY, PILOT MISUNDERSTOOD WIND DIRECTION GIVEN BY FSS.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5951Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Town-Country
N5951YRegistration cancelled Nov 14, 1967 · Piper PA-23-250 (6PCLM)Airframe modelPiper PA-23-250 (6PCLM)
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.
Other investigations on N5951Y · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.