- Date
- August 8, 1968
- Place
- Mexico City, Mexico · MEXICO CITY, Mexico
- Injuries
- 3 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N5790VBeech 23
- Status
- Completed · report December 11, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 108110
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6-0024 68/8/8 NR.MEXICO CITY,MEX BEECH 23 CR- 0 1 0 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 27, 360 TIME - 1148 N5790V PX- 0 2 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 22 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: CONTROLLED LANDING: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - ATTEMPTED OPERATION BEYOND EXPERIENCE/ABILITY LEVEL FACTOR(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS PILOT IN COMMAND - BECAME LOST/DISORIENTED EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON LAND ADVERSE/UNFAVORABLE WEATHER FIRE AFTER IMPACT REMARKS- INVESTIGATED,REPORTED BY GOVT OF MEXICO.SURROUNDED BY TERRAIN HE COULDNT CLEAR,PLT CRASH LANDED.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5790V
- Reported as
- Beech 23
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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