Piper PA-20 N7453K

26 November 1980 · East Berlin, Pennsylvania, United States · Fatal

Summary

On 26 November 1980 at about 09:00 local time, a Piper PA-20 registered N7453K was involved in an accident during in flight near East Berlin, Pennsylvania, United States. 3 people were on board and 3 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 26 November 1980 at 09:00
Classification: Accident
Location: East Berlin, Pennsylvania, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-20
Registration: N7453K
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Fredricksburg, Va → Williamsport, Pa
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-3206

People

3 people died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
3	3	0	0	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.

Read the full NTSB narrative

R WING STRUT LWR FORK ASSY, PN 14481-00, FAILED.

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 3-3206, 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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Other Piper PA-20 accidents

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
4 Jan 1980	Piper PA-20 N7721K	Palmer, Alaska, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
5 Sep 1980	Piper PA-20 N7743K	Fairbanks, Alaska, United States no coordinates	-	Minor injuries	-
24 Oct 1980	Piper PA-20 N8536C	Cody, Wyoming, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
3 Aug 1979	Piper PA-20 N7646K	Red Star, Arkansas, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
7 Oct 1979	Piper PA-20 N1835A	Lakeville, Maine, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
22 Jan 1981	Piper PA-20 N4859A	Newaygo, Michigan, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-

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