- Date
- May 1, 1965
- Place
- Mt Pleasant, PA · MT PLEASANT, PA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4740TMaule M-4
- Status
- Completed · report June 10, 1965
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 178294
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0839 65/5/1 MT PLEASANT PA MAULE M-4 CR- 0 0 1 MISCELLANEOUS PRIVATE, AGE 47, 2000 TIME - 1830 N4740T PX- 0 0 1 DEMONSTRATION TOTAL HOURS, 300 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - MT PLEASANT TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION LANDING: FINAL APPROACH HARD LANDING LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PWP PLT-IMPROPERLY RIGGED MIXTURE CONTROL. MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - ENGINE LOADED UP PERSONNEL - MAINTENANCE,SERVICING,INSPECTION: INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4740T
- Reported as
- Maule M-4
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Mt Pleasant
N4740TRegistered now · Maule M-4-210Airframe modelMaule M-4-210Engine modelContinental IO-360 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.