- Date
- March 30, 1972
- Place
- Clinton, ME · CLINTON, ME
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Taxi
- Aircraft
- N4275ZPiper PA-18
- Status
- Completed · report January 10, 1973
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 165665
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1105 72/3/30 CLINTON,ME PIPER PA-18 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 30, 2385 TIME - 0715 N4275Z PX- 0 0 0 AERIAL SURVEY TOTAL HOURS, 185 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION GREENVILLE,ME CLINTON,ME TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: WIRES/POLES TAXI: FROM LANDING PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED SPEED FACTOR(S) TERRAIN - SNOW-COVERED REMARKS- ACFT HIT SOLID CRUSTED SNOW,SLID SIDEWAYS & HIT A POLE.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4275Z
- Reported as
- Piper PA-18
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
N4275ZRegistration cancelled Nov 21, 2012 · Piper PA-18-150Airframe modelPiper PA-18-150Engine modelLycoming 0-320 series
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Other investigations on N4275Z · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.