- Date
- August 19, 1967
- Place
- Tumwater, WA · TUMWATER, WA
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N7027TCessna 172
- Status
- Completed · report February 6, 1968
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 114001
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-4416 67/8/19 TUMWATER,WASH CESSNA 172 CR- 0 0 1 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, FL.INSTR., TIME - 1015 N7027T PX- 0 0 0 ASSOC FIRE CTL ACTIVITY AGE 49, 5300 TOTAL HOURS, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 200 IN TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - OLYMPIA TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - STARTED ENGINE WITHOUT PROPER ASSISTANCE/EQUIPMENT FACTOR(S) MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - ELECTRICAL FAILURE SYSTEMS - ELECTRICAL SYSTEM: BATTERIES REMARKS- HAND PROPPED ACFT,NO ONE AT CONTROLS.BECAME AIRBORNE,CRASHED ON ARPT.ACFT HAD DEAD BATTERY.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7027T
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Olympia
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