- Date
- August 30, 1967
- Place
- Bucksport, ME · BUCKSPORT, ME
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N1835APiper PA-20S
- Status
- Completed · report December 4, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 114162
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3157 67/8/30 BUCKSPORT,ME PIPER PA-20S CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 42, 830 TIME - 1530 N1835A PX- 0 0 1 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, ALL IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB COLLIDED WITH: TREES LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - IGNITION SYSTEM: MAGNETOS POWERPLANT - IGNITION SYSTEM: COILS PERSONNEL - MAINTENANCE,SERVICING,INSPECTION: INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND REMARKS- FLOAT EQUIPPED. MAGNETO AND COIL FOUND TO CONTAIN CONSIDERABLE OIL AND GREASE.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1835A
- Reported as
- Piper PA-20S
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
N1835ARegistration cancelled Apr 11, 2013 · Piper PA-20Airframe modelPiper PA-20Engine modelLycoming 0-290 series
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Other investigations on N1835A · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.