Short SD3-30 N696HA

10 March 1978 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 10 March 1978 at about 10:00 local time, a Short SD3-30 registered N696HA, operated by Henson Aviatio, was involved in an incident during the landing phase of flight near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. 10 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was not damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 10 March 1978 at 10:00
Classification: Incident
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Nearest airport: Philadelphia Intl
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Short SD3-30
Registration: N696HA
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Henson Aviatio
Operating rule: Air Taxi Operator
Purpose of flight: Air Taxi-Passenger Operations
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Baltimore, Md → S
Aircraft damage: None
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 5-0001

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
10	0	0	0	10

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

DOWN LOCK PISTON ASSEMBLY FAILED PN-17781-1 MENASCO S/N26.

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 5-0001, 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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