- Date
- January 4, 1969
- Place
- Toughkenamon, PA · TOUGHKENAMON, PA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N8126YPiper PA-30
- Status
- Completed · report March 24, 1969
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 191476
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0011 69/1/4 TOUGHKENAMON,PA PIPER PA-30 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 51, 278 TIME - 1150 N8126Y PX- 0 0 0 PRACTICE TOTAL HOURS, 11 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - N GARDEN TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION GROUND-WATER LOOP-SWERVE LANDING: ROLL GEAR COLLAPSED LANDING: ROLL PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER OPERATION OF BRAKES AND/OR FLIGHT CONTROLS FACTOR(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - LACK OF FAMILIARITY WITH AIRCRAFT PILOT IN COMMAND - DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - OVERLOAD FAILURE REMARKS- THIRD SOLO FLT IN MULTI-ENG ACFT.DIVERTED VISION FROM RNWY TO INST PANEL TO LOCATE FLAP CONTROL.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8126Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-30
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- N Garden
N8126YRegistration cancelled Mar 13, 2009 · Piper PA-30Airframe modelPiper PA-30Engine modelLycoming IO-320 series
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Other investigations on N8126Y · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.