ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 13893
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| Date: | Friday 30 December 1977 |
| Time: | 14:36 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-34-200T Seneca II |
| Owner/operator: | Triple Three Flyers Inc |
| Registration: | N7089C |
| MSN: | 34-7670087 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1975 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Pangborn Memorial Airport, 4 nm E of Wenatchee, Washington -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Seattle Tacoma Washington (SEA/KSEA) |
| Pangborn Memorial Airport, Wenatchee, Washington (EAT/KEAT) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Written off (destroyed) December 30 1977 when broke up in flight whilst descending to approach Pangborn Memorial Airport (EAT/KEAT) a public use airport in Douglas County, Washington, United States. It is located four nautical miles (7 km) east of the central business district of Wenatchee, a city in Chelan County, Washington. The pilot- the sole person on board - was killed.
The official NTSB report attributed the cause of the crash to a structural failure in flight, quote: "Vertical and horizontal stabilizers and wings separated from the rest of the airframe. The pilot in command exceeded the designed stress limits of the aircraft".
Although the aircraft was destroyed, the registration N7089C was not cancelled by the FAA until December 2 2014 - some 37 years later.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. NTSB Identification: SEA78FA016 at https://www.ntsb.gov/about/employment/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=43815&key=0
2. FAA: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=7089C
3. https://flightaware.com/resources/registration/N7089C
4. http://planecrashmap.com/plane/wa/N7089C/
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Feb-2008 12:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 01-Dec-2016 16:41 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Operator, Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 01-Dec-2016 16:42 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Aircraft type] |
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