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Date: | Thursday 12 November 1959 |
Time: | 16:10 |
Type: | Piper PA-18 Super Cub |
Owner/operator: | private |
Registration: | N7151K |
MSN: | 18-371 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | 9 mi SE of Somerset, PA -
United States of America
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Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Somerset County Airport, PA |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Hit a spoil pile with a wing while flying low and crashed into farm field one hour in flight. Pilot (23).
Sources:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 13 November 1959, p1
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/510534656/ Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
09-Nov-2017 17:17 |
TB |
Added |
03-May-2022 15:37 |
Cobar |
Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Phase, Source, Narrative] |