Piper PA-15 N4659H

5 January 1978 · Cherokee, North Carolina, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 5 January 1978 at about 13:50 local time, a Piper PA-15 registered N4659H was involved in an accident during in flight near Cherokee, North Carolina, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 5 January 1978 at 13:50
Classification: Accident
Location: Cherokee, North Carolina, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-15
Registration: N4659H
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Morganton, Nc → Jasper, Nc
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-0960

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.

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UN OUTCLIMB SURROUNDING TERRAIN.

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 3-0960, 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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