- Date
- December 19, 1964
- Place
- Huntington Lk, CA · HUNTINGTON LK, CA
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N5552PPiper PA-24
- Status
- Completed · report November 24, 1965
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 180776
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-1031 64/12/19 NR.HUNTINGTON LK CAL PIPER PA-24 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 38, 3800 TIME - 1957 N5552P PX- 1 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 20 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION UNDETERMINED UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED FACTOR(S) WEATHER - ICING CONDITIONS-INCLUDES SLEET,FREEZING RAIN,ETC. WEATHER - DOWNDRAFT,UPDRAFTS WEATHER BRIEFING - BRIEFED BY FLIGHT SERVICE PERSONNEL, BY PHONE WEATHER FORECAST - FORECAST SUBSTANTIALLY CORRECT MISSING AIRCRAFT - LATER RECOVERED SKY CONDITION CEILING AT ACCIDENT SITE OVERCAST 0 VISIBILITY AT ACCIDENT SITE PRECIPITATION AT ACCIDENT SITE ZERO SNOW OBSTRUCTIONS TO VISION AT ACCIDENT SITE TEMPERATURE-F BLOWING SNOW 57 WIND DIRECTION-DEGREES WIND VELOCITY-KNOTS 180 13 TYPE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS TYPE OF FLIGHT PLAN IFR VFR FIRE AFTER IMPACT REMARKS- RECOVERY DATE 8/15/65.ACFT CRASHED ON MT WHITNEY POST CRASH SNOW AND LAND SLIDE DESTROYED EVIDENCE
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5552P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-24
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
N5552PRegistration cancelled Aug 23, 2012 · Piper PA-24-250Airframe modelPiper PA-24-250Engine modelLycoming 0-540 series
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