- Date
- December 5, 1965
- Place
- Hollister, CA · HOLLISTER, CA
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N18GMidget-Mstg MM-1
- Status
- Completed · report April 21, 1966
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 174986
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0996 65/12/5 HOLLISTER CALIF MIDGET-MSTG MM-1 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 39, 50 TOTAL TIME - 1445 N18G PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP HOURS, 8 IN TYPE, NOT DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - HOLLISTER TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION STALL: SPIN TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION AND/OR PLANNING MISC-DIVERSION OF PILOT ATTENTION-CANOPY CAME OPEN REMARKS- COCKPIT CANOPY CAME OPEN DURING TAKEOFF CLIMB
Aircraft
- Registration
- N18G
- Reported as
- Midget-Mstg MM-1
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Hollister
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