Piper PA-28 N9196W

30 August 1970 · Fort Davis, Texas, United States · Minor injuries

Summary

On 30 August 1970 at about 12:45 local time, a Piper PA-28 registered N9196W was involved in an accident during in flight near Fort Davis, Texas, United States. One person was on board and one had minor injuries. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 30 August 1970 at 12:45
Classification: Accident
Location: Fort Davis, Texas, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-28
Registration: N9196W
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Federal-Public Aircraft
Purpose of flight: All Other Public Flying
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Marfa, Tex → Local
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-3455

People

1 person had minor injuries.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
1	0	0	1	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.

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HIT CANYON WALL.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

Where

Approximate

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30.5882, -103.8946
Approximate. The NTSB did not record coordinates, so this marker sits at the centre of Fort Davis, Texas, United States, not at the accident site. How this is worked out.

Source

NTSB record 3-3455, 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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Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
20 Jan 1970	Piper PA-28 N98044	Norwood, Massachusetts, United States approximate position	E W Wiggins AI	No injuries	-
24 Jul 1970	Piper PA-28 N6505J	Torrance, California, United States approximate position	Sperry Air SER	No injuries	-
2 May 1970	Piper PA-28 N993PK	Westville, Oklahoma, United States approximate position	Rivair Inc	No injuries	-
29 Dec 1970	Piper PA-28 N8080N	Mansfield, Massachusetts, United States approximate position	E W Wiggins AI	No injuries	-
23 Oct 1970	Piper PA-28 N5223L	San Juan, Texas, United States approximate position	Upper Valley A	Fatal	1
10 Jul 1970	Piper PA-28 N8519W	Northbrook, Illinois, United States approximate position	-	No injuries	-

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10 Mar 1970	Cessna 182 N71359	Albany, New York, United States approximate position	McIntyre Aviat	No injuries	-
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8 Mar 1970	Cessna 182 N8862X	Ridgely, Maryland, United States approximate position	Charles B Todd	No injuries	-
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