- Date
- May 5, 1980
- Place
- Columbia, CA · COLUMBIA, CA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2493GPiper PA-38
- Status
- Completed · report July 1, 1980
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19800505012849A
- Case key
- 131014
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1392 80/5/5 COLUMBIA,CA PIPER PA-38 CR- 0 0 1 INSTRUCTIONAL STUDENT, AGE 30, 73 TOTAL TIME - 1035 N2493G PX- 0 0 0 SOLO HOURS, ALL IN TYPE, NOT DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - COLUMBIA DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION DELANO,CA COLUMBIA,CA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES LANDING: TRAFFIC PATTERN-CIRCLING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED CLEARANCE REMARKS- AFTER GO-ARND,HIT TREE ON HI TRRN WHILE TURNING BASE.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2493G
- Reported as
- Piper PA-38
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Columbia
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FAA reports on this event · 1
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Other investigations on N2493G · 1
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