- Date
- September 5, 1970
- Place
- Chico, CA · CHICO, CA
- Injuries
- 5 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N5708WPiper PA-28
- Status
- Completed · report June 16, 1971
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 129975
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3617 70/9/5 CHICO,CALIF PIPER PA-28 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 33, 207 TIME - 1500 N5708W PX- 0 0 4 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 68 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - RANCHERO DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION CHICO,CALIF LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLIDED WITH: TREES TAKEOFF: ABORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - DELAYED ACTION IN ABORTING TAKEOFF FACTOR(S) WEATHER - HIGH TEMPERATURE WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFED BY FLIGHT SERVICE PERSONNEL, BY PHONE WEATHER FORECAST - UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED 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 RELATIVE BEARING OF WIND NONE RIGHT CROSS WIND 068-112 DEGREES TEMPERATURE-F WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES 98 225 WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS 12 VFR TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN NONE REMARKS- RWY LNGTH 2280FT,PAVED.ORCHARD,TREES ABT 20FT HIGH,CLOSE TO DEP END OF RWY.WND GUSTING 18K.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5708W
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Ranchero
N5708WRegistration cancelled Apr 7, 2017 · Piper PA-28-150Airframe modelPiper PA-28-150Engine modelLycoming 0-320 series
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Other investigations on N5708W · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.