- Date
- January 25, 1978
- Place
- Shandon, CA · SHANDON, CA
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N55896Piper PA-36
- Status
- Completed · report June 13, 1978
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19780125007259A
- Case key
- 143334
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0785 78/1/25 SHANDON,CA PIPER PA-36 CR- 0 0 1 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, AGE 35, 806 TIME - 0645 N55896 PX- 0 0 0 FERRY TOTAL HOURS, 370 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - SHANDON DUSTER DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION SHANDON,CA CREASA PLAINS,CA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB COLLIDED WITH: TREES TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - MISCELLANEOUS: POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO ABORT TAKEOFF FACTOR(S) TERRAIN - HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE REMARKS- DURING T/O POWER INTERRUPTION OCCURRED,POWER THEN RETURNED.T/O CONTINUED,HIT TREES.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N55896
- Reported as
- Piper PA-36
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Shandon Duster
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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.