- Date
- April 30, 1968
- Place
- Cedar Key, FL · CEDAR KEY, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5231PPiper PA-24
- Status
- Completed · report July 26, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 110509
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2069 68/4/30 CEDAR KEY,FLA PIPER PA-24 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 45, 1577 TIME - 0945 N5231P PX- 0 0 1 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 39 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - LEWIS TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION WHEELS-UP LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED REMARKS- GR PARTIALLY EXTENDED.NO DISCREPANCIES FOUND.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5231P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-24
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Lewis
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Other investigations on N5231P · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.
NTSB NYC94FA075Accident · 4 fatalField investigationFinal reportE. Farmingdale, NYFailure of the local tower controller to adequately control the arrival of the airplanes, and inadequate visual lookout by the Piper PA-24 pilot. A factor related to the accident was: the local controller's improper phraseology in sequencing the airplanes.NTSB MIA75DKJ35Accident · No injuriesClosedFredonia, AL