Amer Avco AA-1 N5799L

9 December 1976 · Spokane, Washington, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 9 December 1976 at about 11:59 local time, a Amer Avco AA-1 registered N5799L, operated by Yankee Flying, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Spokane, Washington, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 9 December 1976 at 11:59
Classification: Accident
Location: Spokane, Washington, United States
Nearest airport: Felts Field
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Amer Avco AA-1
Registration: N5799L
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Yankee Flying
Operating rule: Flying Club
Purpose of flight: Practice
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-3912

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

NOSE GEAR COLLAPSED, NOSED OVER.

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 3-3912, 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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