- Date
- May 19, 1968
- Place
- Somerset, PA · SOMERSET, PA
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N8579ABeech A35
- Status
- Completed · report December 3, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 109559
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3403 68/5/19 SOMERSET,PA BEECH A35 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL STUDENT, AGE 35, 132 TIME - 0945 N8579A PX- 1 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, ALL IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION AIRFRAME FAILURE: IN FLIGHT IN FLIGHT: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SEPARATION IN FLIGHT REMARKS- LEADING EDGE OF RT WING, INBOARD SECTION OF RT AILERON, 40 IN PIECE OF RT AILERON.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8579A
- Reported as
- Beech A35
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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