- Date
- March 11, 1975
- Place
- Brookland, AR · BROOKLAND, AR
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N6966YPiper PA-23
- Status
- Completed · report April 17, 1975
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19750311004989A
- Case key
- 147937
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0345 75/3/11 BROOKLAND,AR PIPER PA-23 CR- 0 1 0 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - 1925 N6966Y PX- 0 0 0 FERRY AGE 47, 3906 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 470 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION MEMPHIS,TN JONESBORO,AR TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES LANDING: INITIAL APPROACH PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER IFR OPERATION PILOT IN COMMAND - DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - INSTRUMENTS-MISREAD OR FAILED TO READ FACTOR(S) WEATHER - LOW CEILING WEATHER - FOG WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFED BY FLIGHT SERVICE PERSONNEL, BY RADIO WEATHER FORECAST - WEATHER SLIGHTLY WORSE THAN FORECAST SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE OBSCURATION 100 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 1/4 MILE OR LESS RAIN OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F FOG 43 WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 50 2 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN BELOW MINIMUMS IFR REMARKS- HIT 50FT TREE ON 3RD ATTMPT AT VOR APCH IN BLO MIN WEA.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6966Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.