- Date
- December 18, 1978
- Place
- Prvdenciales, Burkina Faso · PRVDENCIALES, Bahamas
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N38966Piper PA-32R
- Status
- Completed · report July 23, 1979
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19781218044729A
- Case key
- 138185
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6-0041 78/12/18 PRVDENCIALES,BAHM PIPER PA-32R CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 30, 360 TIME - 0930 N38966 PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 7 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION GROUND-WATER LOOP-SWERVE LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN COLLIDED WITH: OBJECT LANDING: ROLL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN FACTOR(S) TERRAIN - ROUGH/UNEVEN REMARKS- HIT ROCKS ON ROAD.MARIJUANA FOUND AT CRASH SITE.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N38966
- Reported as
- Piper PA-32R
- 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.