- Date
- September 29, 1968
- Place
- Avalon, CA · AVALON, CA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N325Grumman G-21
- Status
- Completed · report January 2, 1969
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 108054
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3818 68/9/29 AVALON,CALIF GRUMMAN G-21 CR- 1 0 0 COMMERCIAL AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 1400 N325 PX- 0 0 0 COMMUTER AIR CARRIER 53, 14000 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 AIR TAXI-PASSG S-D 3000 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - CATALINA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION UNDETERMINED IN FLIGHT: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER REMARKS- ACFT WAS OBSERVED IN LOW LEVEL FLT AND CRASHING INTO OCEAN. ACFT SANK,PLTS BODY NOT RECOVERED.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N325
- Reported as
- Grumman G-21
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Catalina
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.