- Date
- October 20, 1973
- Place
- Columbia C Rds, PA · COLUMBIA C RDS, PA
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N1271HAeronca 15AC
- Status
- Completed · report March 7, 1974
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19731020036409A
- Case key
- 187801
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3997 73/10/20 COLUMBIA C RDS,PA AERONCA 15AC CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 38, 135 TIME - 1400 N1271H PX- 0 0 3 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 44 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - PRIVET-MCCLURE DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION COLUMBIA C RDS,PA LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION STALL LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS FACTOR(S) WEATHER - UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS WEATHER BRIEFING - NO RECORD OF BRIEFING RECEIVED WEATHER FORECAST - UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED 4000 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE RELATIVE BEARING OF WIND HAZE RIGHT CROSS WIND 068-112 DEGREES WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 300 11 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN VFR NONE REMARKS- DRG LDG PHASE ENCTRD WIND GUST L WING AND NOSE OF ACFT HIT GND.WIND GUSTING 20K.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1271H
- Reported as
- Aeronca 15AC
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Privet-Mcclure
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FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N1271H · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.