- Date
- July 5, 1975
- Place
- Santee, CA · SANTEE, CA
- Injuries
- 3 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N4308TPiper PA-28
- Status
- Completed · report August 8, 1975
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19750705019339A
- Case key
- 149538
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1722 75/7/5 SANTEE,CA PIPER PA-28 CR- 0 1 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 53, 450 TIME - 1209 N4308T PX- 0 2 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 4 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - GILLESPIE FIELD DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION SANTEE,CA LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB COLLIDED WITH: DIRT BANK LANDING: ROLL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - ENGINE STRUCTURE: VALVE ASSEMBLIES MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - STUCK FACTOR(S) TERRAIN - ROUGH/UNEVEN PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND REMARKS- NR 2 CYL EXHAUST VALVE SEIZED,PUSH ROD BENT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4308T
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Gillespie Field
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FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.