- Date
- January 24, 1965
- Place
- Lake Charles, LA · LAKE CHARLES, LA
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N5623PPiper PA24
- Status
- Completed · report February 23, 1965
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 180007
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0096 65/1/24 LAKE CHARLES LA PIPER PA24 CR- 0 0 1 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 47, 290 TIME - 1012 N5623P PX- 0 0 1 BUSINESS TOTAL HOURS, 240 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - LAKE CHARLES TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION GEAR RETRACTED TAKEOFF: RUN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - INADVERTENTLY RETRACTED GEAR
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5623P
- Reported as
- Piper PA24
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Lake Charles
N5623PRegistration cancelled May 4, 2015 · Piper PA-24-250Airframe modelPiper PA-24-250Engine modelLycoming 0-540 series
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