- Date
- December 16, 1974
- Place
- Titusville, FL · TITUSVILLE, FL
- Injuries
- 3 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N7671WPiper PA-28
- Status
- Completed · report March 6, 1975
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19741216042219A
- Case key
- 144906
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-4236 74/12/16 TITUSVILLE,FLA PIPER PA-28 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 27, 250 TIME - 2110 N7671W PX- 2 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, UNK/NR IN DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - ARTHUR DUNN DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION JACKSONVILLE,FLA VERO BEACH,FLA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS PILOT IN COMMAND - SPATIAL DISORIENTATION FACTOR(S) WEATHER - RAIN WEATHER - THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WEATHER - LOW CEILING WEATHER - FOG WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFED BY FLIGHT SERVICE PERSONNEL, IN PERSON WEATHER FORECAST - WEATHER CONSIDERABLY WORSE THAN FORECAST SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE OVERCAST 600 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 2 MILES OR LESS RAIN, THUNDERSTORM OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F FOG 56 WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 310 5 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN IFR VFR REMARKS- ACFT IMPACTED SWAMPY AREA IN STEEP NOSE DWN ATTITUDE.ELT NOT FOUND.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7671W
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Arthur Dunn
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FAA reports on this event · 1
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