Piper PA-20 N1818A

21 December 1969 · Skwentna, Alaska, United States · Minor injuries

Summary

On 21 December 1969 at about 13:10 local time, a Piper PA-20 registered N1818A was involved in an accident during in flight near Skwentna, Alaska, United States. 2 people were on board and 2 had minor injuries. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 21 December 1969 at 13:10
Classification: Accident
Location: Skwentna, Alaska, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-20
Registration: N1818A
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Anchorage, Alas → Shell Lake, Alas
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-4545

People

2 people had minor injuries.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
2	0	0	2	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

0-15 FT ABOVE SNOW CVRD LAKE, PLT LOST VISUAL R EFERENCE, LDG GR HIT SNOW.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

Where

Approximate

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61.9903, -151.3978
Approximate. The NTSB did not record coordinates, so this marker sits at the centre of Skwentna, Alaska, United States, not at the accident site. How this is worked out.

Source

NTSB record 3-4545, 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 May 1969	Piper PA-20 N7604K	Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States approximate position	-	Fatal	1
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5 Apr 1969	Piper PA-20 CF-NJQ	Milford, Utah, United States approximate position	-	Minor injuries	-
23 Nov 1969	Piper PA-20 N7002K	Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States approximate position	-	No injuries	-
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18 Jul 1969	Piper PA-20 N7710K	Sidney, New York, United States approximate position	-	No injuries	-

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