- Date
- December 30, 1967
- Place
- Hawthorne, NV · HAWTHORNE, NV
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N3114BCessna 170B
- Status
- Completed · report May 8, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 112573
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-1097 67/12/30 HAWTHORNE,NEV CESSNA 170B CR- 2 0 0 MISCELLANEOUS PRIVATE, AGE 31, UNK/NR TIME - 1905 N3114B PX- 0 0 0 SEARCH AND RESCUE TOTAL HOURS, UNK/NR IN DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - SPATIAL DISORIENTATION FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER REMARKS- SEARCHING FOR DISABLED BOAT ON DARK NIGHT,NO SHORE LIGHTS FOR HORIZON REFERENCE.NOT INSTR RATED.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N3114B
- Reported as
- Cessna 170B
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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