Piper PA-24 N8476P

20 December 1973 · Wilmington, Delaware, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 20 December 1973 at about 15:00 local time, a Piper PA-24 registered N8476P, operated by Standard Engin, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Wilmington, Delaware, 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: 20 December 1973 at 15:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Nearest airport: Greater Wilmingtn
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-24
Registration: N8476P
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Standard Engin
Operating rule: Corporate/Executive
Purpose of flight: Business
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: S → Middletown, del
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: IMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-3845

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

PLT RTRND TO ILG DUE WX AT DEST.ENCTRD GND FOG AND FEAR OF RUNNING INTO MEN AND EQPT, GND LOOPED.

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 3-3845, 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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