- Date
- May 9, 1970
- Place
- Mill Point, NY · MILL POINT, NY
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N494MMooney M18LA
- Status
- Completed · report October 6, 1970
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 127171
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1161 70/5/9 MILL POINT,NY MOONEY M18LA CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 50, 661 TIME - 1045 N494M PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, UNK/NR IN DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION LUMBERTON,NJ PISECO,NY TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES IN FLIGHT: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED REMARKS- OBS SAW ACFT DESCENDING IN CIRCLE GRADUALLY LOSING ALT. NO MALFUNCTION FOUND.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N494M
- Reported as
- Mooney M18LA
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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