- Date
- August 16, 1971
- Place
- Torrance, CA · TORRANCE, CA
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N3113GSprotaire 002
- Status
- Completed · report January 5, 1972
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 162681
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1450 71/8/16 TORRANCE,CALIF SPROTAIRE 002 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 27, 1330 TIME - 1745 N3113G PX- 0 1 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 15 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-NONE OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - TORRANCE DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION TORRANCE,CALIF LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION PROPELLER/ROTOR ACCIDENT TO PERSON STATIC: IDLING ENGINE(S) PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT PERSONNEL - MISCELLANEOUS-PERSONNEL: PASSENGER REMARKS- PAX 1ST PLANE RIDE JUMPED OFF WING INTO PROP.PLT IN COCKPIT WAITING FOR NEXT PAX.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3113G
- Reported as
- Sprotaire 002
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- No damage
- Airport
- Torrance