- Date
- July 28, 1968
- Place
- Fayetteville, AR · FAYETTEVILLE, AR
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N8948PPiper PA-24
- Status
- Completed · report January 27, 1969
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 201072
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-4065 68/7/28 FAYETTEVILLE,ARK PIPER PA-24 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 17, 103 TIME - 2245 N8948P PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 9 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - SPATIAL DISORIENTATION PILOT IN COMMAND - EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT MISSING AIRCRAFT - LATER RECOVERED REMARKS- PLT TOOK OFF INTO UNPOPULATED MOUNTAINOUS AREA DESPITE WARNING.3 HRS NITE TIME.RECOV DATE 11/7/68.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8948P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-24
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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