- Date
- August 8, 1968
- Place
- Independence, MS · INDEPENDENCE, MS
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N5834ZPiper PA-22
- Status
- Completed · report February 26, 1969
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 108678
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-4496 68/8/8 INDEPENDENCE,MISS PIPER PA-22 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL STUDENT, AGE 46, UNK/NR TIME - 0915 N5834Z PX- 0 0 0 BUSINESS TOTAL HOURS, UNK/NR IN DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED FIRE AFTER IMPACT REMARKS- PLT HAD HISTORY OF RHEUMATIC FEVER AND HEART CONDITION.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5834Z
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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