- Date
- July 27, 1966
- Place
- Chinook, MT · CHINOOK, MT
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N2978KLuscombe 8A
- Status
- Completed · report February 1, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 171645
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0495 66/7/27 CHINOOK MONT LUSCOMBE 8A CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL STUDENT, AGE 24, 50 TOTAL TIME - 1810 N2978K PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP HOURS, 35 IN TYPE, NOT DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED REMARKS- SUSPECT PILOT WAS INCAPACITATED DUE HEAD INJURY SUSTAINED IN AUTO-ACCIDENT 1-MONTH EARLIER.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2978K
- Reported as
- Luscombe 8A
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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