Piper PA-18 N4176Z

28 August 1966 · Jacobshavn Green, Greenland · No injuries

Summary

On 28 August 1966 at about 11:00 local time, a Piper PA-18 registered N4176Z, operated by Oblate Fathers, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Jacobshavn Green, Greenland. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 28 August 1966 at 11:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Jacobshavn Green, Greenland
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-18
Registration: N4176Z
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Oblate Fathers
Operating rule: Corporate/Executive
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Landing
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 6-0064

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
2	0	0	0	2

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.

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INVESTIGATION UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF DENMARK.

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 6-0064, 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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