- Date
- July 11, 1965
- Place
- Elizabethville, PA · ELIZABETHVILLE, PA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N8718EMid Mustang M-M-1
- Status
- Completed · report December 10, 1965
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 177277
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0659 65/7/11 ELIZABETHVILLE PA MID MUSTANG M-M-1 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 48, 1037 TIME - 1945 N8718E PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 53 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - LESTER TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION STALL: SPIN LANDING: TRAFFIC PATTERN-CIRCLING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS FACTOR(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8718E
- Reported as
- Mid Mustang M-M-1
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Lester
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