- Date
- August 12, 1972
- Place
- Osage, IA · OSAGE, IA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N48MLBowers Fly Baby
- Status
- Completed · report February 21, 1973
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 163341
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2309 72/8/12 OSAGE,IOWA BOWERS FLY BABY CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 55, 179 TIME - 1430 N48ML PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 18 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - OSAGE MUNICIPAL DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION OSAGE,IOWA LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: FENCE,FENCEPOSTS LANDING: FINAL APPROACH PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED ALTITUDE FACTOR(S) AIRPORTS/AIRWAYS/FACILITIES - AIRPORT CONDITIONS: OTHER REMARKS- AIRPORT CLOSED.LDG IN TURF AREA SHORT OF RWY.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N48ML
- Reported as
- Bowers Fly Baby
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Osage Municipal
N48MLRegistration cancelled May 8, 2021 · Bowers Fly Baby 1-AAirframe modelBowers Fly Baby 1-AEngine modelContinental A&C75 series
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.