- Date
- November 26, 1966
- Place
- Ames, IA · AMES, IA
- Injuries
- 3 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N1517PPiper PA-22
- Status
- Completed · report April 11, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 120597
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0890 66/11/26 AMES IOWA PIPER PA-22 CR- 0 1 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 27, 75 TOTAL TIME - 1915 N1517P PX- 0 2 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP HOURS, 57 IN TYPE, NOT DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - AMES MUNI 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 - FOG WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFED BY FLIGHT SERVICE PERSONNEL, BY PHONE WEATHER FORECAST - FORECAST SUBSTANTIALLY CORRECT SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE PARTIAL OBSCURATION 0 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 1/4 MILE OR LESS NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F FOG 41 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN IFR NONE REMARKS- ON 2ND NITE APPROACH,IN FOG,WHILE IN A HIGH RATEOF DESCENT,ACFT STRUCK THE GRD IN LEVEL ATTITUDE.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1517P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-22
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Ames Muni
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