Piper PA-18 N331T

22 April 1979 · Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 22 April 1979 at about 18:10 local time, a Piper PA-18 registered N331T, operated by Cival Air Patr, was involved in an accident during the taxi phase of flight near Lancaster, 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: 22 April 1979 at 18:10
Classification: Accident
Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
Nearest airport: Lancaster
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-18
Registration: N331T
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Cival Air Patr
Operating rule: Federal-Public Aircraft
Purpose of flight: Training
Phase of flight: Taxi
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-1105

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

POST ACCIDENT EXAMINATION DISCLOSED NO BRAKE MALFUNCTION.

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 3-1105, 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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