ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 13480
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Date: | Wednesday 15 January 1964 |
Time: | 07:00 |
Type: | Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche |
Owner/operator: | Private |
Registration: | N7037Y |
MSN: | 30-40 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Whitehaven, Memphis, Tennessee -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Executive |
Departure airport: | Memphis Municipal Airport, TN (MEM/KMEM) |
Destination airport: | |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Written off (destroyed) 15 January 1964 when crashed at Whitehaven, a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee. According to the official NTSB report into the accident: "Engines failed due to fuel starvation; aircraft unable to maintain height & crashed during off airfield forced landing. Pilot failed to obtain/maintain optimum flying speed during initial climb out from Memphis Municipal Airport, TN. Passenger inadvertently turned off fuel selector". All three persons on board (pilot and two passengers) were killed
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Report number: | UNK64X0253 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
1. NTSB Identification:
https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=261&key=0 2.
http://planecrashmap.com/plane/tn/N7037Y/ Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
25-Feb-2008 12:00 |
ASN archive |
Added |
28-Dec-2015 13:53 |
JINX |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
29-Feb-2016 20:25 |
Dr.John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
15-Jul-2019 11:55 |
BEAVERSPOTTER |
Updated [Cn] |
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