- Date
- January 30, 1967
- Place
- Littlefield, TX · LITTLEFIELD, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7553WPiper PA-28
- Status
- Completed · report June 21, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 118751
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0293 67/1/30 LITTLEFIELD,TEX PIPER PA-28 CR- 0 0 1 INSTRUCTIONAL STUDENT, AGE 35, 59 TOTAL TIME - 1500 N7553W PX- 0 0 0 TRAINING HOURS, ALL IN TYPE, NOT DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - LITTLEFIELD MUNI. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION HARD LANDING LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN GEAR COLLAPSED LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER LEVEL OFF WEATHER - UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - POORLY PLANNED APPROACH MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - OVERLOAD FAILURE SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE CLEAR UNLIMITED 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 HEAD WIND 293-337 DEGREES WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 270 25 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN VFR VFR REMARKS- LEFT QUARTERING HEAD WIND 30 DEGREES,18 KNOTS GUSTING TO 25 KNOTS.PLT MADE PWR-OFF APPROACH.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7553W
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Littlefield Muni.
N7553WRegistered now · Piper PA-28-180Airframe modelPiper PA-28-180Engine modelLycoming O&VO-360 series
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Other investigations on N7553W · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.