- Date
- July 10, 1978
- Place
- Albany, GA · ALBANY, GA
- Injuries
- 3 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N41ACPiper PA-30
- Status
- Completed · report August 23, 1978
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19780710029189A
- Case key
- 140773
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2199 78/7/10 NR.ALBANY,GA PIPER PA-30 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 45, TIME - 1915 N41AC PX- 2 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP UNK/NR TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 UNK/NR IN TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION MARIANNA,FL ATLANTA,GA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION AIRFRAME FAILURE: IN FLIGHT IN FLIGHT: NORMAL CRUISE PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS PILOT IN COMMAND - EXCEEDED DESIGNED STRESS LIMITS OF AIRCRAFT FACTOR(S) WEATHER - TURBULENCE, ASSOCIATED W/CLOUDS AND/OR THUNDERSTORMS WEATHER - THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SEPARATION IN FLIGHT WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFED BY WEATHER BUREAU PERSONEL, BY PHONE SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE SCATTERED 12000 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) RAIN, THUNDERSTORM OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED 76 WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 220 8 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN VFR NONE REMARKS- PILOT DID NOT MAINTAIN PILOT LOGBOOK.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N41AC
- Reported as
- Piper PA-30
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.