Preliminary Reports

At 12:01 Pacific time, a Piper PA-28-140 was damaged while landing in a field after losing engine power five miles east of Livermore Municipal Airport. The CFI was seriously injured and the pilot-rated student was not injured. The student said he was shooting approaches into Livermore and, while on the ILS Runway 25R approach, he intended to switch from the right tank to the left tank, but moved the fuel selector handle to the off position. When he and the CFI attempted to move the fuel selector handle back to the left tank, it jammed….

At 15:55 Pacific time, a Ryan ST3KR crashed into trees one minute after departing from the airport at Georgetown. The pilot was seriously injured and the passenger was killed. Witnesses told police several airplanes stopped at Georgetown after one leg of a round-robin cross-country. The accident pilot left his traveling companion on the ground while he gave a ride to a new private pilot. A mechanic who observed the accident said the airplane departed on runway 34, stayed low over the runway then pulled up steeply and banked right. It then rolled sharply to the left and the nose dropped….

At about 11:30 eastern time, a Beech BE-58 was damaged during a hard landing at Greenwood Lake Airport. The two occupants were not hurt. During the landing flare to runway 24, the airplane dropped about 30 feet onto the pavement with the nose cocked about 30 degrees to the left. The left main landing gear tire blew and the airplane veered off the left side of the runway. The airplane rolled through the grass until hitting a parked airplane about 400 feet from the runway….

At 13:10 Pacific time, a Piper PA-31-350 suffered a collapsed landing gear during a precautionary landing on a beach at the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. The precautionary landing was precipitated by a loss of power in the left engine during cruise flight and the inability of the pilot to maintain altitude on one engine. The pilot of the Part 135 flight and nine passengers were not injured. The pilot said the airplane departed Boulder City at maximum gross takeoff weight and climbed to a cruise altitude of 9,500 feet msl. About 20 minutes into the flight, the pilot heard a loud pop sound and the left engine surged once. The pilot turned around and started back toward lower terrain. T…

At 17:05 central time, a Champion 7ECA was damaged when it veered off the grass runway that is parallel to runway 12 at Carter Airport and nosed over. The pilot was not injured. The pilot told investigators he was landing and was forced to take evasive action to avoid hitting a skydiver who was standing on the runway….

At about 14:55 mountain time, a Piper PA-28-200 suffered an in-flight structural failure near Teec Nos Pos and crashed, killing the pilot and passenger. The airplane was operated by a flying club in Broomfield, Colo., and had departed on Nov. 3. A notepad found in the wreckage documented a flight from Jeffco Airport in Broomfield to Monarch Pass, Blue Mesa, Dove Creek, Page and Las Vegas. The wreckage was found at 8,600 feet in the Carrizo Mountains after an ELT beacon alerted the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center….

At 11:44 central time, a Cessna 210N, operated by Teledyne Continental Motors as an experimental airplane for research and development, was substantially damaged during a forced landing on a highway approximately 12 miles south of Harrisburg. The pilot was not injured. The pilot said he was one of three flights en route to the AirVenture airshow in Oshkosh, Wis. The pilot said he was cruising at 6,500 feet when the airplane lost power….

At 07:52 eastern time, a Piper PA-31 and a Piper PA-44 collided over Burlington Township, killing the nine people on board the Navajo and the two aboard the Seminole. Most of the PA-31 struck the garage of a house and most of the PA-44 landed in a soybean field approximately one-half mile away….

At about 04:00 Pacific time, a Cessna 340A crashed while on approach to land at Selma, killing the pilot and seriously injuring the passenger. The airplane departed the Part 135 air taxi companys base at San Luis Obispo about 02:35 and picked up a passenger at Paso Robles at about 02:50. En route to Selma, the pilot was receiving VFR flight following but reported the airport in sight and canceled the service. Witnesses said the airplane made two attempts to land on runway 28 and the final approach to runway 10. Ground fog was obscuring the airport and there was an estimated 500 feet of horizontal visibility. The airplane crashed into an embankment 176 feet from the runway 10 threshold. Ther…

At approximately 14:45 Pacific time, a Cessna 172N overran runway 35 and struck trees following an aborted takeoff at the Siletz Bay State Airport. The pilot sustained minor injuries. The flight was to have been a brief local evaluation of weather conditions before departing for Salem, Ore. The pilot said he decided to evaluate the weather conditions around the airport before departing with his wife and two children back to Salem. He taxied out to runway 35 but did not complete the Before Takeoff checklist prior to initiating his takeoff roll. He was unable to rotate the nose and realized that the aircraft control lock was still engaged. The aircraft overran the departure end of the 3,000…