Piper PA-24 N5949P

4 October 1967 · Alabaster, Alabama, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 4 October 1967 at about 20:00 local time, a Piper PA-24 registered N5949P was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Alabaster, Alabama, 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: 4 October 1967 at 20:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Alabaster, Alabama, United States
Nearest airport: Shelby County
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-24
Registration: N5949P
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Business
Phase of flight: Landing
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 3-3590

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

ELEC-WIRE BECAME DISCONNECTED FROM THROTTLE SWITCH CAUSING LDG GR WARN HORN TO BECOME INOPERATIVE.

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 3-3590, 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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