Piper PA-30 N7562Y

16 May 1971 · Long Beach, California, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 16 May 1971 at about 14:30 local time, a Piper PA-30 registered N7562Y, operated by Charles H Barn, was involved in an incident during the landing phase of flight near Long Beach, California, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was slightly damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 16 May 1971 at 14:30
Classification: Incident
Location: Long Beach, California, United States
Nearest airport: Long Beach
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-30
Registration: N7562Y
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Charles H Barn
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Minor
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 5-0016

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

PLT PUT LD GR HANDLE DWN, FAILED TO MAKE SURE GR DWN AND LOCKED.

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 5-0016, 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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