- Date
- February 28, 1973
- Place
- Sioux City, IA · SIOUX CITY, IA
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N7150YPiper PA-30
- Status
- Completed · report April 3, 1973
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19730228004139A
- Case key
- 169829
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0460 73/2/28 SIOUX CITY,IOWA PIPER PA-30 CR- 0 1 0 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, AGE 30, 2079 TIME - 2100 N7150Y PX- 0 1 0 FERRY TOTAL HOURS, 104 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - SIOUX CITY MUN DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION DES MOINES,IOWA SIOUX CITY,IOWA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES LANDING: FINAL APPROACH PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER IFR OPERATION PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO FOLLOW APPROVED PROCEDURES,DIRECTIVES,ETC. FACTOR(S) WEATHER - LOW CEILING WEATHER - FOG WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFED BY FLIGHT SERVICE PERSONNEL, BY PHONE WEATHER FORECAST - WEATHER CONSIDERABLY WORSE THAN FORECAST SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED 100 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 1/4 MILE OR LESS NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F FOG 42 WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 120 5 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN BELOW MINIMUMS IFR REMARKS- DSCNDD BLO DH,HIT TREES BTWN OMK AND ARPT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7150Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-30
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Sioux City Mun
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FAA reports on this event · 1
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Other investigations on N7150Y · 1
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