- Date
- July 7, 1971
- Place
- Missing Aircraft · MISSING AIRCRAFT, UN
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N8779PPiper PA-24
- Status
- Completed · report February 14, 1972
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 162671
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2074 71/7/7 MISSING AIRCRAFT PIPER PA-24 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 58, UNK/NR TIME - UNK/NR N8779P PX- 1 0 0 BUSINESS TOTAL HOURS, UNK/NR IN DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION HARLINGEN,TEX MOBILE,ALA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION MISSING AIRCRAFT,NOT RECOVERED UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED REMARKS- ACFT DMG AND INJURY INDEX PRESUMED.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8779P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-24
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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