- Date
- February 27, 1965
- Place
- New Kent, VA · NEW KENT, VA
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N25982Piper J3C-65
- Status
- Completed · report April 12, 1965
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 179764
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0076 65/2/27 NEW KENT VA PIPER J3C-65 CR- 0 1 0 NONCOMMERCIAL STUDENT, AGE 44, 70 TOTAL TIME - 1755 N25982 PX- 0 0 0 PRACTICE HOURS, 60 IN TYPE, NOT DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - NEW KENT TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES LANDING: FINAL APPROACH LIGHTNING STRIKE LANDING: FINAL APPROACH PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED DISTANCE FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SUNGLARE
Aircraft
- Registration
- N25982
- Reported as
- Piper J3C-65
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- New Kent
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