- Date
- June 12, 1973
- Place
- Liberty, NC · LIBERTY, NC
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2132PPiper PA-23
- Status
- Completed · report August 14, 1973
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 190214
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1633 73/6/12 LIBERTY,NC PIPER PA-23 CR- 0 0 2 INSTRUCTIONAL COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - 1200 N2132P PX- 0 0 0 DUAL AGE 27, 1990 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 41 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - CAUSEY DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION LIBERTY,NC LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION LANDING: FINAL APPROACH GEAR COLLAPSED LANDING: ROLL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SIMULATED CONDITIONS AIRFRAME - LANDING GEAR: GEAR LOCKING MECHANISM MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - MATERIAL FAILURE PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE REMARKS- UPPER NOSE GR DRAG LINK BROKE FOR UNDTMND REASONS.NO EVIDENCE OF OLD CRACK IN BREAK.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2132P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Causey
N2132PRegistration cancelled Aug 9, 2012 · Piper PA-23Airframe modelPiper PA-23Engine modelLycoming 0-320 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.