- Date
- August 1, 1972
- Place
- Pflugerville, TX · PFLUGERVILLE, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N847SPPiper PA-24
- Status
- Completed · report March 5, 1973
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 168117
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2685 72/8/1 PFLUGERVILLE,TEX PIPER PA-24 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 51, 10000 TIME - 1330 N847SP PX- 0 0 0 BUSINESS TOTAL HOURS, 1000 IN DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - TIM'S AIRPARK DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION PFLUGERVILLE,TEX HOUSTON TEX TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB COLLIDED WITH: FENCE,FENCEPOSTS LANDING: ROLL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - MISCELLANEOUS: POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS TERRAIN - HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND REMARKS- NO ENGINE MALFUNCTION DURING GROUND OPERATIONAL CK. BENCH CK FUEL SYS REVEALED NO MALFUNCTION.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N847SP
- Reported as
- Piper PA-24
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Tim'S Airpark
N847SPRegistered now · Piper PA-24-400Airframe modelPiper PA-24-400Engine modelLycoming IO-720 series
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.