- Date
- October 11, 1964
- Place
- Wiscasset, ME · WISCASSET, ME
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N5606ZPiper PA22
- Status
- Completed · report November 27, 1964
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 186006
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0565 64/10/11 WISCASSET ME PIPER PA22 CR- 0 1 0 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 48, 1200 TIME - 0100 N5606Z PX- 0 1 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, UNK/NR IN DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - WISCASSET TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION UNDERSHOOT LANDING: FINAL APPROACH COLLIDED WITH: TREES LANDING: FINAL APPROACH PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - MISJUDGED ALTITUDE REMARKS- RELATIVELY DARK NITE SPACELY LIGHTED APPROACH AREA
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5606Z
- Reported as
- Piper PA22
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Wiscasset
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