- Date
- November 20, 1966
- Place
- New Bern, NC · NEW BERN, NC
- Injuries
- 3 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N40406Martin M-404
- Status
- Completed · report August 29, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 120562
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1-0072 66/11/20 NR.NEW BERN NC MARTIN M-404 CR- 3 0 0 SCHED DOM PASSG SRV AIRLINE TRANSPORT, AGE TIME - 0606 N40406 PX- 0 0 0 45, 12779 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 2807 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - SIMMONS-NOTT OPERATOR - PIEDMONT AVIATION,INC. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES IN FLIGHT: DESCENDING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT-DESCENDED BELOW OBSTRUCTING TERRAIN. REMARKS- ACFT CRASHED IN DARK UNLIGHTED WOODED AREA.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N40406
- Reported as
- Martin M-404
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Simmons-Nott
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