- Date
- October 16, 1967
- Place
- Fabens, TX · FABENS, TX
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4088ZPiper PA-18
- Status
- Completed · report January 2, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 113487
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0794 67/10/16 FABENS,TEX PIPER PA-18 CR- 0 1 0 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, AGE 41, 5076 TIME - 1110 N4088Z PX- 0 0 0 POLICE PATROL TOTAL HOURS, 3961 IN DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: CONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT REMARKS- PLT LOOKING AT MAP WHILE FLYING AT LOW ALTITUDE.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4088Z
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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