- Date
- February 10, 1972
- Place
- Missing Aircraft · MISSING AIRCRAFT, UN
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N98991Piper PA-12
- Status
- Completed · report January 17, 1973
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 165549
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1155 72/2/10 MISSING AIRCRAFT PIPER PA-12 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL NO CERTIFICATE, AGE 32, TIME - UNK/NR N98991 PX- 1 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP 206 TOTAL HOURS, UNK/NR DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 IN TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION KNOXVILLE,TENN LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION MISSING AIRCRAFT,NOT RECOVERED UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED REMARKS- ACFT DMG AND INJ INDEX PRESUMED. DEPT AT TWILIGHT. NO RECORD FOUND FOR PLT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N98991
- Reported as
- Piper PA-12
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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