Piper PA-28 N470FL

18 April 1972 · Fort Collins, Colorado, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 18 April 1972 at about 11:00 local time, a Piper PA-28 registered N470FL, operated by Valley Airpark, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Fort Collins, Colorado, 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: 18 April 1972 at 11:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado, United States
Nearest airport: Valley
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-28
Registration: N470FL
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Valley Airpark
Operating rule: Fixed Base Operator
Purpose of flight: Solo
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-1466

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

HIT ON NOSE GR. HAD 4 HRS SOLO.

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 3-1466, 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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