- Date
- September 12, 1969
- Place
- Danbury, CT · DANBURY, CT
- Injuries
- 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N5649LAmer Avco AA-1
- Status
- Completed · report February 23, 1970
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 187046
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3128 69/9/12 DANBURY,CONN AMER AVCO AA-1 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - 0945 N5649L PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP AGE 34, 3749 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 2 IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - DANBURY DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION DANBURY,CONN LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB NOSE OVER/DOWN LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - MISCELLANEOUS: POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS TERRAIN - ROUGH/UNEVEN FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - TOUCH AND GO LANDING PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5649L
- Reported as
- Amer Avco AA-1
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Danbury
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