- Date
- April 21, 1975
- Place
- Mccook, TX · MCCOOK, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N9565DPiper PA-22
- Status
- Completed · report May 19, 1975
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19750421008879A
- Case key
- 148617
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0858 75/4/21 MCCOOK,TX PIPER PA-22 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 41, 85 TOTAL TIME - 0530 N9565D PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP HOURS, 67 IN TYPE, NOT DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION WESLACO,TX LAREDO,TX TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: CONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS PILOT IN COMMAND - DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT FACTOR(S) WEATHER - LOW CEILING WEATHER - FOG WEATHER BRIEFING - PARTIAL BRIEFING BY FLIGHT SERVICE PERSONNEL, BY PHONE/RADIO, LIMITED BY PILOT ACTION WEATHER FORECAST - FORECAST SUBSTANTIALLY CORRECT SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE OVERCAST/LOWER SCATTERED 1800 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE ZERO NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS SMOKE IFR TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN NONE REMARKS- PILOT FAILED TO MAINTAIN ALTITUDE WHILE ATTEMPTING 180 DEGREE TURN.WAS TUNING VOR.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N9565D
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
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Other investigations on N9565D · 1
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