Pitts S1S N66JS

31 August 1975 · Centralia, Illinois, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 31 August 1975 at about 18:45 local time, a Pitts S1S registered N66JS was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Centralia, 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: 31 August 1975 at 18:45
Classification: Accident
Location: Centralia, Illinois, United States
Nearest airport: Centralia Muni
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Pitts S1S
Registration: N66JS
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Salem, Il → S
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-2481

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

L TAIL WHEEL STEERING CHAIN BROKE CAUSED DEFLECTION TO R.L BRAKE COULD NOT OVERCOME R SPRING.

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 3-2481, 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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