- Date
- July 20, 1965
- Place
- Wenatchee, WA · WENATCHEE, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N4850PPiper PA-23
- Status
- Completed · report September 14, 1965
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 176457
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2114 65/7/20 WENATCHEE WASH PIPER PA-23 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 53, 3300 TIME - 0700 N4850P PX- 0 0 0 BUSINESS TOTAL HOURS, 1200 IN DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - PANGBORN FIELD TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION GEAR RETRACTED TAKEOFF: ABORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - RETRACTED GEAR PREMATURELY FACTOR(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - DIVERTED ATTENTION FROM OPERATION OF AIRCRAFT REMARKS- CABIN DOOR CAME OPEN AT LIFT-OFF.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N4850P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Pangborn Field
N4850PRegistration cancelled Jun 18, 2013 · Piper PA-23-250Airframe modelPiper PA-23-250Engine modelLycoming 0-540 series
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.