- Date
- July 7, 1971
- Place
- Hershey, PA · HERSHEY, PA
- Injuries
- 3 fatal, 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N5920UPiper PA-28
- Status
- Completed · report January 4, 1972
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 162046
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1574 71/7/7 HERSHEY,PA PIPER PA-28 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 57, 184 TIME - 1840 N5920U PX- 2 1 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 175 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - HERSHEY AIRPARK DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION HERSHEY,PA LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES IN FLIGHT: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED CLEARANCE FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - SUNGLARE REMARKS- OBS SAW ACFT DIVING,WG HIT TREE ON PULL UP.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5920U
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Hershey Airpark
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