Stits SA3B N1079Z

2 September 1967 · Owatonna, Minnesota, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 2 September 1967 at about 09:00 local time, a Stits SA3B registered N1079Z was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Owatonna, Minnesota, 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: 2 September 1967 at 09:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Owatonna, Minnesota, United States
Nearest airport: Owatonna
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Stits SA3B
Registration: N1079Z
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Test
Phase of flight: Landing
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-3732

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

FAILURE PEDAL TORQUE TUBE ATTACHED TO N STEERINGBROKEN WELDS ON BRACE TUBES FROM E.MOUNT TO GEAR.

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 3-3732, 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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19 Apr 1974	Stits SA3B N5145	Rainelle, West Virginia, United States no coordinates	-	Serious injuries	-
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