Piper PA-23 N4889P

23 August 1976 · Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States · Fatal

Summary

On 23 August 1976 at about 22:30 local time, a Piper PA-23 registered N4889P, operated by Gulf Coast M0S, was involved in an accident during in flight near Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 23 August 1976 at 22:30
Classification: Accident
Location: Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-23
Registration: N4889P
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Gulf Coast M0S
Operating rule: State-Public Aircraft
Purpose of flight: All Other Public Flying
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 3-3416

People

1 person died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
1	1	0	0	0

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 UNLIT 199.8 FT TWR AND HOUSE. INSECT CONTROLFLIGHT.

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 3-3416, 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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