- Date
- August 31, 1969
- Place
- Clifton, AZ · CLIFTON, AZ
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N139SFPiper PA-28
- Status
- Completed · report May 1, 1970
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 155365
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3824 69/8/31 CLIFTON,ARIZ PIPER PA-28 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 43, 630 TIME - 1730 N139SF PX- 0 0 3 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 524 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - CLIFTON DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION CLIFTON,ARIZ PHOENIX,ARIZ TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: OBJECT TAKEOFF: ABORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT PILOT IN COMMAND - INITIATED FLIGHT IN ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS WEATHER - DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS TERRAIN - ROUGH/UNEVEN WEATHER BRIEFING - NO RECORD OF BRIEFING RECEIVED WEATHER FORECAST - UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED 9000 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) RAIN SHOWERS OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES NONE 60 WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS 8 VFR TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN NONE REMARKS- ENCTRD DOWNDRAFT AFTER T/O,UN CLB ABV RISING TRRN.LNDD IN ROCKY AREA.RAIN SQUALLS S AND N.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N139SF
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Clifton