- Date
- November 14, 1965
- Place
- Palm Springs, CA · PALM SPRINGS, CA
- Injuries
- 8 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N243FLear Jet 23
- Status
- Completed · report August 9, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 175480
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0649 65/11/14 PALM SPRINGS CAL LEAR JET 23 CR- 2 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 1721 N243F PX- 6 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP 62, 15100 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 125 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - SPATIAL DISORIENTATION FIRE AFTER IMPACT REMARKS- ACCIDENT OCCURRED AT NIGHT AS ACFT TURNED TOWARD DARK,CLOUD-SHROUDED MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N243F
- Reported as
- Lear Jet 23
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- turbo jet
- Damage
- Destroyed