Luscombe 8A N71922

9 August 1965 · Wessingtn Sps S D, South Dakota, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 9 August 1965 at about 10:00 local time, a Luscombe 8A registered N71922 was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Wessingtn Sps S D, South Dakota, 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: 9 August 1965 at 10:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Wessingtn Sps S D, South Dakota, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Luscombe 8A
Registration: N71922
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Landing
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-3454

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.

Read the full NTSB narrative

COLLIDED WITH HAYSTACK DURING AN OFF AIRPORT OPERATION

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 3-3454, 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.

Also in

United States 170,864 Luscombe 8 1,528 1965 5,428

Other Luscombe 8 accidents

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
10 Jan 1965	Luscombe 8A N71704	Riverside Calif, California, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
5 Mar 1965	Luscombe 8A N1148B	Centerville Nev, Nevada, United States no coordinates	-	Serious injuries	-
11 Jul 1965	Luscombe 8E N1444B	Wellsville Ohio, Ohio, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
31 Jan 1965	Luscombe 8A N25355	Newbury Mass, Massachusetts, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
23 Jun 1965	Luscombe 8E N1851K	Colwich Kans, Kansas, United States no coordinates	-	Minor injuries	-
4 Aug 1965	Luscombe 8E N2188B	Culloden W Va, West Virginia, United States no coordinates	Hurricane FC	No injuries	-

All 1,528 records for this type

Other accidents in this area

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
26 Jul 1965	Hughes 269A-1 N8938F	Lynch Ky, Kentucky, United States no coordinates	Rotairport, Inc	No injuries	-
31 Oct 1965	Cessna 195B N3090B	Imnaha Oreg, Oregon, United States no coordinates	-	Serious injuries	-
5 Nov 1965	Bell 204B N73273	Georgetown Colo, Colorado, United States no coordinates	Whirl-Wide HEL	Minor injuries	-
27 Jan 1965	Piper PA28 N5700W	San Jose Calif, California, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
7 Mar 1965	Navion B N75394	Englewood Fla, Florida, United States no coordinates	-	Minor injuries	-
6 Apr 1965	Boeing A75N1 N57249	Mesa Ariz, Arizona, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-

All 170,864 records in United States