- Date
- October 17, 1965
- Place
- Presley Lake, ME · PRESLEY LAKE, ME
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- CF-NYJPiper PA-12S
- Status
- Completed · report December 15, 1965
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 176283
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- E-0015 65/10/17 NR.PRESLEY LAKE ME PIPER PA-12S CR- 0 1 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 37, 420 TIME - 1530 CF-NYJ PX- 0 1 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 250 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES IN FLIGHT: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO SEE AND AVOID OBJECTS OR OBSTRUCTIONS PILOT IN COMMAND - DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT FACTOR(S) TERRAIN - ICY MISSING AIRCRAFT - LATER RECOVERED REMARKS- RECOVERY DATE 10/18/65.PILOT WAS CIRCLING OVER 2 MOOSE.
Aircraft
- Registration
- CF-NYJ
- Reported as
- Piper PA-12S
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed