- Date
- July 12, 1977
- Place
- Soggy Dry Lake, CA · SOGGY DRY LAKE, CA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N44675Piper PA-28
- Status
- Completed · report July 28, 1977
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19770712018009A
- Case key
- 146113
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1804 77/7/12 SOGGY DRY LAKE,CA PIPER PA-28 CR- 0 0 2 INSTRUCTIONAL COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - 1330 N44675 PX- 0 0 0 DUAL AGE 61, 3009 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 122 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - SOGGY DRY LAKE DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION HAWTHORNE,CA DAGGETT,CA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION LANDING: FINAL APPROACH GEAR COLLAPSED LANDING: ROLL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - FUEL SYSTEM: OTHER TERRAIN - ROUGH/UNEVEN FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - OVERLOAD FAILURE COMPLETE POWER LOSS - COMPLETE ENGINE FAILURE/FLAMEOUT-1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND REMARKS- VAPOR LOCK SUSPECTED.LNDD IN ROUGH DRY LAKE.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N44675
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Soggy Dry Lake
N44675Registered now · Piper PA-28-140Airframe modelPiper PA-28-140Engine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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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.