- Date
- April 8, 1979
- Place
- Walkill, NY · WALKILL, NY
- Injuries
- 1 minor, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N5381KNavion NAV-B
- Status
- Completed · report June 12, 1979
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19790408007959A
- Case key
- 137071
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0787 79/4/8 WALKILL,NY NAVION NAV-B CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 63, 1050 TIME - 1200 N5381K PX- 0 0 1 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 825 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - KOBELT DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION RAMAPO VALLEY,NY RAMAPO VALLEY,NY TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION ENGINE FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION IN FLIGHT: CLIMB TO CRUISE COLLIDED WITH: OBJECT LANDING: FINAL APPROACH PROBABLE CAUSE(S) POWERPLANT - MISCELLANEOUS: POWERPLANT FAILURE FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS TERRAIN - HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS PARTIAL POWER LOSS - PARTIAL LOSS OF POWER - 1 ENGINE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND REMARKS- AIRCRAFT COLLIDED WITH VIADUCT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5381K
- Reported as
- Navion NAV-B
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Kobelt
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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.