ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 13613
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Date: | Sunday 19 January 1975 |
Time: | 12:42 |
Type: | Piper PA-31-310 Navajo |
Owner/operator: | Faulkner Concrete |
Registration: | N1FP |
MSN: | 31-768 |
Year of manufacture: | 1971 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near H. L. Sonny Callahan Airport, Fairhope, Baldwin County, Alabama -
United States of America
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Executive |
Departure airport: | Hattiesburg–Laurel Regional Airport, Hattiesburg MS (KPIB/PIB) |
Destination airport: | H.L. Sonny Callahan Airport, Fairhope, Alabama (KCQF/CQF) |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Written off (destroyed) January 19, 1975, when crashed at Fairhope, Alabama. Aircraft experienced a CFIT (Controlled Flight Into Terrain) during final approach to H. L. Sonny Callahan Airport (KCQF/CQF) four miles south east of Fairhope, Baldwin County, Alabama. Both persons on board (pilot and one passenger) were killed. According to the following extract from the official NTSB report into the accident:
"PROBABLE CAUSE(S)
PERSONNEL - MAINTENANCE,SERVICING,INSPECTION: INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION
SYSTEMS - FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS: AILERON AND AILERON TAB CONTROL SYSTEM
MISCELLANEOUS - FOREIGN MATERIAL AFFECTING NORMAL OPERATIONS
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - JAMMED CONTROLS, FIRE AFTER IMPACT
A screwdriver was found inserted in control chain between pins 13-14. Full right travel could and did lock aileron controls."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Report number: | MIA75AM046 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
1. NTSB Identification: MIA75AM046:
https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=47646&key=0 2. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.baaa-acro.com/1975/archives/crash-of-a-piper-pa-31-cheyenne-in-alabama-2-killed/]
3.
http://planecrashmap.com/plane/al/N1FP/ Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
25-Feb-2008 12:00 |
ASN archive |
Added |
03-Dec-2009 12:08 |
DavidAshley |
Updated |
06-Aug-2017 18:38 |
TB |
Updated [Aircraft type] |
06-Aug-2017 18:41 |
TB |
Updated [Aircraft type] |
06-Aug-2017 18:55 |
TB |
Updated [Aircraft type] |
07-Sep-2017 19:26 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
07-Sep-2017 19:29 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Location, Departure airport, Destination airport] |
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