- Date
- October 7, 1970
- Place
- Avalon, CA · AVALON, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N87564Republic RC-3
- Status
- Completed · report August 2, 1971
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 158977
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-4114 70/10/7 AVALON,CALIF REPUBLIC RC-3 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 1140 N87564 PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP 42, 10000 TOTAL HOURS, 10 DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - AVALON DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION TORRANCE,CALIF LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION HARD LANDING LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN MISCELLANEOUS TAXI: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL PILOT IN COMMAND - SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN FACTOR(S) TERRAIN - ROUGH WATER REMARKS- NOT SEAPLANE RTD.2FT SWELLS.BOW SEC,WNDSHLD DMGD.GR DMGD DRG BCHNG.LNDD GR-UP,ARPT,NO FURTHER DMG.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N87564
- Reported as
- Republic RC-3
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Avalon
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