Spartan 7W N17659

8 July 1974 · Hawthorne, California, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 8 July 1974 at about 12:15 local time, a Spartan 7W registered N17659 was involved in an accident during the takeoff phase of flight near Hawthorne, California, United States. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 8 July 1974 at 12:15
Classification: Accident
Location: Hawthorne, California, United States
Nearest airport: Hawthorne
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Spartan 7W
Registration: N17659
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Takeoff
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-1763

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
2	0	0	0	2

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

PILOT LEFT RAG IN ENG COWL WHCH ENTRD CARB INTAKE.

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 3-1763, 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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