- Date
- December 19, 1964
- Place
- Indianapolis, IN · INDIANAPOLIS, IN
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 3 uninjured
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Standing
- Aircraft
- N8451PPiper PA24
- Status
- Completed · report February 9, 1965
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 180648
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0839 64/12/19 INDIANAPOLIS IND PIPER PA24 CR- 0 1 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 50, 400 TIME - 1916 N8451P PX- 0 0 3 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 225 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-NONE OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - WEIR COOK TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION PROPELLER/ROTOR ACCIDENT TO PERSON STATIC: IDLING ENGINE(S) PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - OPERATED CARELESSLY REMARKS- PLT ON WING LEANED AGAINST CABIN DOOR-DOOR STOP PIN NOT IN PLACE-DOORGAVE WAY-PLT FELL INTO PROP.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8451P
- Reported as
- Piper PA24
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- No damage
- Airport
- Weir Cook
N8451PRegistered now · Piper PA-24-250Airframe modelPiper PA-24-250Engine modelLycoming 0-540 series
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Other investigations on N8451P · 3
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