Piper PA-18 N7587K

10 January 1970 · Moffit, North Dakota, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 10 January 1970 at about 16:00 local time, a Piper PA-18 registered N7587K was involved in an accident during the takeoff phase of flight near Moffit, North Dakota, 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: 10 January 1970 at 16:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Moffit, North Dakota, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-18
Registration: N7587K
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Hunting
Phase of flight: Takeoff
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-0314

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

ENG LOST POWER. R MAG OUT OF TIME, BOTH MAG BRKR PTS SEVERELY ERODED. TURNED TO AVOID TREE.HIT GATE

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 3-0314, 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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