Piper PA-23 N6162Y

8 December 1966 · Charleston Sc, South Carolina, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 8 December 1966 at about 00:30 local time, a Piper PA-23 registered N6162Y, operated by Hawthorne Avia, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Charleston Sc, South Carolina, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 8 December 1966 at 00:30
Classification: Accident
Location: Charleston Sc, South Carolina, United States
Nearest airport: John Island
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-23
Registration: N6162Y
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Hawthorne Avia
Operating rule: Fixed Base Operator
Purpose of flight: Air Taxi-Cargo Operations
Phase of flight: Landing
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: IMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 3-4073

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
2	0	0	0	2

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

DEST.ARPT OBSC.BY WX-PLT TRIED LDG. ON NEARBY UNLIGHTED ARPT, HIT TREE.ALTIMETER READ 100 FT HIGH.

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 3-4073, 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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