- Date
- July 20, 1968
- Place
- Clearwater, FL · CLEARWATER, FL
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N3385BPiper PA-22
- Status
- Completed · report October 8, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 109319
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2554 68/7/20 CLEARWATER,FLA PIPER PA-22 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL STUDENT, AGE 52, 98 TOTAL TIME - 2130 N3385B PX- 0 1 2 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP HOURS, ALL IN TYPE, NOT DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - CLEARWATER TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION HARD LANDING LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROPELLER/ROTOR ACCIDENT TO PERSON STATIC: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER LEVEL OFF PERSONNEL - MISCELLANEOUS-PERSONNEL: PASSENGER REMARKS- PX STRUCK BY PROP WHILE ATTEMPTING TO ASSIST OTHER PX IN EVACUATING ACFT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3385B
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Clearwater
N3385BRegistered now · Piper PA-22-135Airframe modelPiper PA-22-135Engine modelLycoming 0-290 series
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Other investigations on N3385B · 1
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