- Date
- May 6, 1979
- Place
- Patten, ME · PATTEN, ME
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 1 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N1559EAeronca 7CCM
- Status
- Completed · report August 23, 1979
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19790506013089A
- Case key
- 135320
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1944 79/5/6 NR.PATTEN,ME AERONCA 7CCM CR- 0 1 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 48, 800 TIME - 1300 N1559E PX- 0 0 1 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 350 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - SHIN POND DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION PATTEN,ME LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES LANDING: FINAL APPROACH PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING PILOT IN COMMAND - EXERCISED POOR JUDGMENT FACTOR(S) WEATHER - UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS WEATHER - DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS TERRAIN - HIGH OBSTRUCTIONS TERRAIN - ROUGH WATER SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE CLEAR UNLIMITED VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE 5 OR OVER(UNLIMITED) NONE OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES NONE 270 WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS 50 VFR TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN NONE REMARKS- WIND GUSTING 60K.FLOAT EQPD.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1559E
- Reported as
- Aeronca 7CCM
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Shin Pond
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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.