Maule M-4 N40347

12 May 1973 · Pilot Point, Alaska, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 12 May 1973 at about 16:00 local time, a Maule M-4 registered N40347 was involved in an accident during in flight near Pilot Point, Alaska, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 12 May 1973 at 16:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Pilot Point, Alaska, United States
Nearest airport: Pilot Point
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Maule M-4
Registration: N40347
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Hunting
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-2504

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

SOURCE OF ENG FIRE UNDTRMD.ACFT CONSUMED BY FIRE

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 3-2504, 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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