- Date
- August 4, 1970
- Place
- Georgetown, SC · GEORGETOWN, SC
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N8047YPiper PA-30
- Status
- Completed · report October 30, 1970
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 116639
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1288 70/8/4 NR.GEORGETOWN,SC PIPER PA-30 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 36, 399 TIME - 0005 N8047Y PX- 1 0 0 BUSINESS TOTAL HOURS, 26 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION LAST ENROUTE STOP TETERBORO,NJ TALLAHASSEE,FLA GEORGETOWN,SC TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - SPATIAL DISORIENTATION MISSING AIRCRAFT - LATER RECOVERED REMARKS- RECOVERY DATE 9/19/70. FLT OVER SPARSELY LTD TERRAIN AT NITE. CRASHED IN SWAMP.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8047Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-30
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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