- Date
- April 3, 1979
- Place
- San Marcos, CA · SAN MARCOS, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N100TFGrumman F6F
- Status
- Completed · report August 17, 1979
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19790403016409A
- Case key
- 137211
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2041 79/4/3 SAN MARCOS,CA GRUMMAN F6F CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 33, 4500 TIME - 1245 N100TF PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 50 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION CARLSBAD,CA LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE COLLIDED WITH: DIRT BANK LANDING: ROLL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - MISCELLANEOUS: POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS TERRAIN - ROUGH/UNEVEN COMPLETE POWER LOSS - COMPLETE ENGINE FAILURE/FLAMEOUT-1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND
Aircraft
- Registration
- N100TF
- Reported as
- Grumman F6F
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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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.
Other investigations on N100TF · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.