- Date
- October 25, 1975
- Place
- Fabens, TX · FABENS, TX
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N4861HPiper PA-17
- Status
- Completed · report November 21, 1975
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19751025034669A
- Case key
- 151100
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3223 75/10/25 NR.FABENS,TX PIPER PA-17 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 55, 253 TIME - 1640 N4861H PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, UNK/NR IN DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION FABENS,TX ALAMOGORDO,NM TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - INCAPACITATION MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - PILOT SUFFERED HEART ATTACK FIRE AFTER IMPACT REMARKS- AUTOPSY SHOWS PLT DIED OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE PRECEEDING THE ACDT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4861H
- Reported as
- Piper PA-17
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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FAA reports on this event · 1
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