- Date
- September 5, 1965
- Place
- Milroy, PA · MILROY, PA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N6353MStinson 108-3
- Status
- Completed · report September 22, 1965
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 175897
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-1067 65/9/5 MILROY PA STINSON 108-3 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 48, 294 TIME - 1950 N6353M PX- 0 0 0 PRACTICE TOTAL HOURS, 108 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - MIFFLIN COUNTY TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - SPATIAL DISORIENTATION FACTOR(S) PERSONNEL - AIRPORT SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL: IMPROPER OPERATION OF FACILITIES REMARKS- AIRPORT LIGHTS SET TO COME ON AT 2030 EST.OFFICIAL TIME OF DARKNESS WAS 1905 EST.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6353M
- Reported as
- Stinson 108-3
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Mifflin County
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