- Date
- February 11, 1966
- Place
- Somerville, NJ · SOMERVILLE, NJ
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N4490PPiper PA-23
- Status
- Completed · report March 15, 1966
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 173741
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0169 66/2/11 SOMERVILLE NJ PIPER PA-23 CR- 0 0 1 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - 1900 N4490P PX- 0 0 3 AIR TAXI-PASSG AGE 32, 3300 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 950 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - SOMERSET TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES LANDING: GO-AROUND PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - DELAYED IN INITIATING GO-AROUND REMARKS- NIGHT.LANDING ATTEMPT ABANDONED BECAUSE OF LOCAL GROUND FOG
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4490P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Somerset
N4490PRegistered now · Piper PA-23-160Airframe modelPiper PA-23-160Engine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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