- Date
- January 23, 1971
- Place
- Garden City, GA · GARDEN CITY, GA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N7072PPiper PA-24
- Status
- Completed · report December 6, 1971
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 159835
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0639 71/1/23 GARDEN CITY,GA PIPER PA-24 CR- 0 0 2 INSTRUCTIONAL COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - 1240 N7072P PX- 0 0 0 DUAL AGE 23, 2594 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 67 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - SAVANNAH DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION HILTON HEAD,SC SAVANNAH,GA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION HARD LANDING LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN GEAR COLLAPSED LANDING: ROLL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER LEVEL OFF FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - OVERLOAD FAILURE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - PRECAUTIONARY LANDING ON AIRPORT SUSPECTED MECHANICAL DISCREPANCY REMARKS- ABORTED AFT HARD LDG AT HILTON HEAD,SC.UN GET SAFE GR INDCN,CONTD TO DESTN,GR COLLAPSED ON LDG.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7072P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-24
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Savannah
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Other investigations on N7072P · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.