Piper PA-30 N7858Y

16 March 1980 · Gainesville, Georgia, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 16 March 1980 at about 13:00 local time, a Piper PA-30 registered N7858Y, operated by The Orton Co, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Gainesville, Georgia, 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: 16 March 1980 at 13:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Gainesville, Georgia, United States
Nearest airport: Lee Gilmer Memrl
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-30
Registration: N7858Y
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: The Orton Co
Operating rule: Corporate/Executive
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: S → Return
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-0311

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 STATED UN FULLY LOWER GEAR, NO MALF FOUND.

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 3-0311, 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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