- Date
- April 24, 1971
- Place
- Iowa City, IA · IOWA CITY, IA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N5682UPiper PA-28
- Status
- Completed · report December 29, 1971
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 160933
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1354 71/4/24 IOWA CITY,IOWA PIPER PA-28 CR- 0 0 1 INSTRUCTIONAL COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - 1515 N5682U PX- 0 0 1 DUAL AGE 28, 429 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 330 IN TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION IOWA CITY,IOWA LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION LANDING: TRAFFIC PATTERN-CIRCLING COLLIDED WITH: DIRT BANK LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - MISCELLANEOUS: POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS TERRAIN - ROUGH/UNEVEN COMPLETE POWER LOSS - COMPLETE ENGINE FAILURE/FLAMEOUT-1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND REMARKS- ABT 45MIN FLT,6TH LDG,ENG DID NOT RESPOND TO THROTTLE ON BASE LEG.HIT DIRT BANK SHORT OF RWY.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5682U
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
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