Stits SA-3A N1039Z

25 June 1972 · Pittsfield, Illinois, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 25 June 1972 at about 12:00 local time, a Stits SA-3A registered N1039Z was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Pittsfield, Illinois, 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: 25 June 1972 at 12:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Pittsfield, Illinois, United States
Nearest airport: Schuster's
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Stits SA-3A
Registration: N1039Z
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: St.louis, Mo → S
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-2826

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

50FT WIDE RWY, SWERVED INTO LUSCOMBE N1776K.

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 3-2826, 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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Other Stits SA-3A accidents

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
10 Jun 1973	Stits SA-3A N74872	MacOmb, Illinois, United States no coordinates	-	Fatal	1
5 May 1974	Stits SA-3A N431S	Rubidoux, California, United States no coordinates	-	Fatal	1
1 Feb 1970	Stits SA-3A N9109	Lincoln, Nebraska, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
12 Jul 1968	Stits SA-3A N4665S	Plant City, Florida, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
5 Apr 1977	Stits SA-3A N8157	Bisbee, Arizona, United States no coordinates	-	Fatal	1
21 May 1989	Stits SA-3A N2278P	Jackpot, Nevada, United States	Edward Tadlock	No injuries	-

All 8 records for this type

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Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
20 Feb 1972	Piper PA-11 N4512M	Moberly, Missouri, United States no coordinates	Tail Draggers	Fatal	1
13 Jan 1972	Piper PA-28R N3025R	Paradise, Washington, United States no coordinates	Sportsman Airp	Fatal	3
10 May 1972	Douglas DC-9 N8916E	Atlanta, Georgia, United States no coordinates	Eastern Air Lines, Inc.	No injuries	-
1 Jul 1972	Cessna 172K N7363G	Maysville, Kentucky, United States no coordinates	-	Minor injuries	-
3 Oct 1972	Piper PA-22 N5840D	Oxford, Connecticut, United States no coordinates	Oxford Flying	Minor injuries	-
6 Aug 1972	Amer Avco AA1A N9363L	Atco, New Jersey, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-

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