- Date
- December 25, 1966
- Place
- Aliquippa, PA · ALIQUIPPA, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2527KLuscombe 8E
- Status
- Completed · report April 17, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 119355
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-4254 66/12/25 ALIQUIPPA PA LUSCOMBE 8E CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL NO CERTIFICATE, AGE 43, TIME - 1630 N2527K PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP 199 TOTAL HOURS, 165 IN DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - ALIQUIPPA HOPEWEL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION LANDING: GO-AROUND OVERSHOOT LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - IGNITION SYSTEM: MAGNETOS FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - MATERIAL FAILURE PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING ON AIRPORT/SEAPLANE BASE/HELIPT. SUSPECTED MECHANICAL DISCREPANCY REMARKS- ROTATING MAGNET,RT.MAG.CRACKED AT KEY WAY THAT KEYS TO SHAFT.REAR BEARING NEARLY DRY OF LUBRICANT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2527K
- Reported as
- Luscombe 8E
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Aliquippa Hopewel
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