- Date
- December 19, 1969
- Place
- Norwood, LA · NORWOOD, LA
- Injuries
- 4 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4723PPiper PA-23
- Status
- Completed · report February 4, 1970
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 181059
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2945 69/12/19 NORWOOD,LA PIPER PA-23 CR- 1 0 0 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - 1930 N4723P PX- 3 0 0 AIR TAXI-PASSG AGE 25, 1700 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 45 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION BATON ROUGE,LA OXFORD,MISS TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS FACTOR(S) WEATHER - LOW CEILING WEATHER - FOG WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFED BY WEATHER BUREAU PERSONEL, BY PHONE WEATHER FORECAST - FORECAST SUBSTANTIALLY CORRECT SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE OBSCURATION 500 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 1 MILE OR LESS NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F FOG 52 WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 10 6 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN IFR NONE REMARKS- ATTEMPTED FLT AT LOW ALT OVER UNLIGHTED AREA.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4723P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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