- Date
- October 5, 1972
- Place
- Carlisle, PA · CARLISLE, PA
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N2236PPiper PA-23
- Status
- Completed · report December 20, 1972
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 168635
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0861 72/10/5 CARLISLE,PA PIPER PA-23 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 48, 3000 TIME - 1700 N2236P PX- 0 0 2 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 300 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - CARLISLE DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION HERSHEY,PA CARLISLE,PA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES LANDING: FINAL APPROACH PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED CLEARANCE FACTOR(S) WEATHER - LOW CEILING WEATHER - RAIN WEATHER - FOG WEATHER BRIEFING - UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED WEATHER FORECAST - UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE OVERCAST 400 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 3 MILES OR LESS RAIN OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES FOG 100 WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS 5 BELOW MINIMUMS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN NONE REMARKS- FLEW INTO TREE ON VFR APCH IN BLO MINIMUM COND TO UNCONTROLLED ARPT. CONT APCH AND LND OK.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2236P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Carlisle
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