Piper PA-18 N4089Z

20 April 1965 · Laredo Tex, Texas, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 20 April 1965 at about 17:30 local time, a Piper PA-18 registered N4089Z, operated by U S Immigratin, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Laredo Tex, Texas, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 20 April 1965 at 17:30
Classification: Accident
Location: Laredo Tex, Texas, United States
Nearest airport: Laredo
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-18
Registration: N4089Z
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: U S Immigratin
Operating rule: Federal-Public Aircraft
Purpose of flight: Practice
Phase of flight: Landing
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-1246

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
1	0	0	0	1

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

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IMPROPER OPERATION OF THROTTLE-SIMULATED EMERGENCY LANDING

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 3-1246, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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