- Date
- August 27, 1970
- Place
- Macon, GA · MACON, GA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N3449PPiper PA-18
- Status
- Completed · report October 23, 1970
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 116477
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1244 70/8/27 MACON,GA PIPER PA-18 CR- 1 1 0 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - 1000 N3449P PX- 0 0 0 POWER/PIPELINE AGE 23, 1360 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 86 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION MACON,GA MACON,GA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES IN FLIGHT: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) COPILOT - MISJUDGED CLEARANCE PILOT IN COMMAND - DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT PILOT IN COMMAND - INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF FLIGHT REMARKS- CP ALLOWED ACFT TO DESCEND INTO TREES WHILE PLT WAS LOOKING AT MAP. CP TOTAL TIME AS OF 9/8/69.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3449P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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