- Date
- September 30, 1967
- Place
- Belford, NJ · BELFORD, NJ
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N7741KPiper PA-20
- Status
- Completed · report December 19, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 114510
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0791 67/9/30 BELFORD,NJ PIPER PA-20 CR- 0 1 0 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 43, 6000 TIME - 0636 N7741K PX- 0 0 0 FISH SPOTTING TOTAL HOURS, UNK/NR IN DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - J HOWARD SMITH TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION STALL TAKEOFF: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER REMARKS- ACFT TURNED BACK TOWARD RNWY AFTER TAKEOFF.REASON FOR TURN UNDETERMINED. CRASHED IN SWAMP.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7741K
- Reported as
- Piper PA-20
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- J Howard Smith
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