Piper PA-18 N17080

26 May 1979 · Ft Lauderdale, Florida, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 26 May 1979, a Piper PA-18 registered N17080, operated by Aerial Sign Co, was involved in an accident during in flight near Ft Lauderdale, Florida, 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: 26 May 1979
Classification: Accident
Location: Ft Lauderdale, Florida, United States
Nearest airport: Ft.lauderdale
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-18
Registration: N17080
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Aerial Sign Co
Operating rule: Aerial Applicator
Purpose of flight: Aerial Advertising
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-1819

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

L FUEL CAP CONTAMINATED W RUST PARTICLES.

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 3-1819, 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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