- Date
- October 25, 1975
- Place
- Whitehouse Sta, NJ · WHITEHOUSE STA, NJ
- Injuries
- 6 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N54005Piper PA-23
- Status
- Completed · report December 15, 1975
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19751025039179A
- Case key
- 151501
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3607 75/10/25 WHITEHOUSE STA,NJ PIPER PA-23 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 50, 2264 TIME - 0746 N54005 PX- 5 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 49 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - SOLBERG HUNTERDON DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION HUNTERDON,NJ BEAVER FALLS,NY TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED FACTOR(S) WEATHER - LOW CEILING WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFED BY FLIGHT SERVICE PERSONNEL, BY PHONE WEATHER FORECAST - FORECAST SUBSTANTIALLY CORRECT SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE OVERCAST 500 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 2 MILES OR LESS DRIZZLE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F FOG 64 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN IFR NONE REMARKS- SHORTLY AFT TKOF ACFT EMERGED & ASCENDED TWICE INTO OVCST, THEN DOVE INTO GROUND.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N54005
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Solberg Hunterdon
N54005Registration cancelled Jan 30, 1976 · Piper PA-23-250 (6PCLM)Airframe modelPiper PA-23-250 (6PCLM)
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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.