- Date
- November 19, 1974
- Place
- Roaring Sprgs, TX · ROARING SPRGS, TX
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N55065Boeing A75
- Status
- Completed · report December 9, 1974
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19741119037299A
- Case key
- 140937
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3494 74/11/19 ROARING,SPRGS,TEX BOEING A75 CR- 0 0 1 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, AGE 31, 628 TIME - 1010 N55065 PX- 0 0 0 FERRY TOTAL HOURS, 0 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - BUZZ FIELD DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION ROARING,SPRGS,TEX HOBBS,N MEX TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION IN FLIGHT: CLIMB TO CRUISE COLLIDED WITH: DIRT BANK LANDING: ROLL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER OPERATION OF POWERPLANT & POWERPLANT CONTROLS PILOT IN COMMAND - LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - FUEL STARVATION FACTOR(S) TERRAIN - ROUGH/UNEVEN PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND REMARKS- PIC INADVERTENTLY TURNED OFF MIXTURE CONTROL
Aircraft
- Registration
- N55065
- Reported as
- Boeing A75
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Buzz Field
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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.
Other investigations on N55065 · 3
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.