- Date
- August 10, 1969
- Place
- Avalon, CA · AVALON, CA
- Injuries
- 7 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N322Grumman G-21A
- Status
- Completed · report August 25, 1969
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 168512
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2142 69/8/10 AVALON,CALIF GRUMMAN G-21A CR- 0 0 1 COMMERCIAL AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 1740 N322 PX- 0 0 6 COMMUTER AIR CARRIER 41, 12520 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 AIR TAXI-PASSG S-D 764 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION HARD LANDING LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) TERRAIN - ROUGH WATER REMARKS- ACFT SKIPPED OFF HI SWELL,LANDED HARD,TAIL SURFACE DAMAGED BY HEAVY SPRAY.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N322
- Reported as
- Grumman G-21A
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
N322Registration cancelled Jan 18, 2018 · Grumman G-21AAirframe modelGrumman G-21AEngine modelPratt & Whitney R-985 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.
Other investigations on N322 · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.
NTSB FTW87LA162Accident · Minor injuriesLimited investigationFinal reportBig Spring, TXDuring flt, the plt noted that the left fuel tank was almost empty and the right tank had gained fuel. He immediately switched from the both position to the right tank and started to work the wobble pump. The fuel continued to drop in the left tank and the…NTSB OAK70A0013Accident · Minor injuriesClosedAvalon, CA