- Date
- December 6, 1965
- Place
- Palau · PALAU,CAROLINES I, UN
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N42289Piper J3C-S
- Status
- Completed · report June 8, 1966
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 175026
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-1057 65/12/6 NR.PALAU,CAROLINES I PIPER J3C-S CR- 1 0 0 MISCELLANEOUS COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - UNK/NR N42289 PX- 1 0 0 SEARCH AND RESCUE AGE 44, 4000 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 UNK/NR IN TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION MISSING AIRCRAFT,NOT RECOVERED UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED REMARKS- AIRCRAFT MISSING IN PACIFIC NEAR ANGUAR PALAU I.DAMAGE AND INJURIES PRESUMED.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N42289
- Reported as
- Piper J3C-S
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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