Grum Amer AA-5A N26078

28 December 1978 · Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 28 December 1978 at about 14:30 local time, a Grum Amer AA-5A registered N26078, operated by Friedens Aviat, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Somerset, Pennsylvania, 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: 28 December 1978 at 14:30
Classification: Accident
Location: Somerset, Pennsylvania, United States
Nearest airport: Somerset
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Grum Amer AA-5A
Registration: N26078
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Friedens Aviat
Operating rule: Fixed Base Operator
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-4246

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

ACFT WING HIT A SMALL SIGN ON SIDE OF RWY.

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 3-4246, 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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