- Date
- August 23, 1966
- Place
- Lewisville, TX · LEWISVILLE, TX
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N4604MPiper PA-11S
- Status
- Completed · report October 25, 1966
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 171635
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0349 66/8/23 LEWISVILLE TEX PIPER PA-11S CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 35, 249 TIME - 1730 N4604M PX- 0 1 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 14 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-NONE OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - GARZA-LITTLE ELM TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION PROPELLER/ROTOR ACCIDENT TO PERSON STATIC: IDLING ENGINE(S) PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PERSONNEL - MISCELLANEOUS-PERSONNEL: PASSENGER FACTOR(S) TERRAIN - ROUGH WATER WEATHER - UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED 2500 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F NONE 75 WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 90 15 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN VFR NONE REMARKS- PASSENGER STRUCK BY PROPELLER WHILE DEPLANING.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4604M
- Reported as
- Piper PA-11S
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- No damage
- Airport
- Garza-Little Elm
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.