- Date
- October 19, 1965
- Place
- Fairfax, MN · FAIRFAX, MN
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N7619WPiper PA-28
- Status
- Completed · report March 30, 1966
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 175879
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0936 65/10/19 NR.FAIRFAX MINN PIPER PA-28 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL STUDENT, AGE 26, 133 TIME - 2020 N7619W PX- 0 0 0 BUSINESS TOTAL HOURS, 43 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. 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
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7619W
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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