Forney F-1 N7501C

31 July 1979 · Fayetteville, West Virginia, United States · Serious injuries

Summary

On 31 July 1979 at about 20:40 local time, a Forney F-1 registered N7501C was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Fayetteville, West Virginia, United States. One person was on board and one was seriously injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 31 July 1979 at 20:40
Classification: Accident
Location: Fayetteville, West Virginia, United States
Nearest airport: New River Gorge
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Forney F-1
Registration: N7501C
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Dusk
NTSB number: 3-3502

People

1 person was seriously injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
1	0	1	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

MSTR SWCH"ON"LITE WIRE WAS BARE & MADE CNTCT WITH CARB HT CNTRL.SPRKS & SMK CSD PLT TO SHT OFF ENG

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 3-3502, 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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Other Forney F-1 accidents

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
6 Feb 1979	Forney F-1 N7542C	Mason, Michigan, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
21 Dec 1980	Forney F-1 N6137C	Lakeland, Florida, United States no coordinates	-	Fatal	2
20 Apr 1980	Forney F-1 N6133C	Ft.collins, Colorado, United States no coordinates	-	Fatal	1
21 Jan 1977	Forney F-1 N7561C	Phoenix, Arizona, United States no coordinates	-	Minor injuries	-
14 May 1983	Forney F-1 N7528C	Fitchburg, Massachusetts, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
28 Apr 1974	Forney F-1 N3003G	Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, United States no coordinates	Columbus Busin	Minor injuries	-

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