- Date
- November 12, 1975
- Place
- White Plains, NY · WHITE PLAINS, NY
- Injuries
- 3 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5700YPiper PA-23
- Status
- Completed · report December 16, 1975
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 152032
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the incident.
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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5-0024 75/11/12 WHITE PLAINS,NY PIPER PA-23 CR- 0 0 1 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 34, 1200 TIME - 1853 N5700Y PX- 0 0 2 COMMUTER AIR CARRIER TOTAL HOURS, 150 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-MINOR OT- 0 0 0 AIR TAXI-PASSG S-D INSTRUMENT RATED. CLASSIFIED AS INCIDENT NAME OF AIRPORT - WESTCHESTER CO DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION LAST ENROUTE STOP BEDFORD,MA WHITE PLAINS,NY BOSTON,MA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION WHEELS-UP LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO ASSURE THE GEAR WAS DOWN AND LOCKED FACTOR(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT WEATHER - LOW CEILING SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE OVERCAST 1600 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) RAIN OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE RELATIVE BEARING OF WIND FOG LEFT QUARTERING HEAD WIND 293-337 DEGREES TEMPERATURE-F WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES 49 120 WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS 11 VFR TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN VFR REMARKS- T/D WITH GR RETRACTED,GO-AROUND,LNDP OK.PLT CONCERN WITH LWRG CLG AND OTR TFC.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5700Y
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Airport
- Westchester Co
N5700YRegistration cancelled Apr 18, 2019 · Piper PA-23-250Airframe modelPiper PA-23-250Engine modelLycoming IO-540 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 N5700Y · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.