- Date
- January 8, 1968
- Place
- Tarpon Sprngs, FL · TARPON SPRNGS, FL
- Injuries
- 4 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N3156BCessna 170B
- Status
- Completed · report May 15, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 111443
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0753 68/1/8 NR.TARPON SPRNGS,FLA CESSNA 170B CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL STUDENT, AGE 23, 70 TOTAL TIME - UNK/NR N3156B PX- 3 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP HOURS, 50 IN TYPE, NOT DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER MISSING AIRCRAFT - LATER RECOVERED REMARKS- RECOVERY DATE.1/12/68.1 PAX MISSING,INJURY PRESUMED.CRASHED IN GULF OF MEX.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3156B
- Reported as
- Cessna 170B
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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