- Date
- January 5, 1978
- Place
- Cherokee, NC · CHEROKEE, NC
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N4659HPiper PA-15
- Status
- Completed · report June 8, 1978
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19780105003519A
- Case key
- 143447
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0960 78/1/5 CHEROKEE,NC PIPER PA-15 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 54, 173 TIME - 1350 N4659H PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 63 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION MORGANTON,NC JASPER,NC TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED DISTANCE,SPEED,AND ALTITUDE REMARKS- UN OUTCLIMB SURROUNDING TERRAIN.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4659H
- Reported as
- Piper PA-15
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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FAA reports on this event · 1
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Other investigations on N4659H · 1
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