1974 Peltolammi air accident
Piper PA-28 Cherokee · Icing, crash
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 3
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 3
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Unknown
Piper PA-28 Cherokee
- Aircraft type
- Piper PA-28
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- Unknown
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Approximate · Estimated position: Tampere, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The Peltolammi air accident occurred on 13 January 1974 in Peltolammi, Tampere, when the Swedish-registered Piper PA-28-140 Cherokee light aircraft SE-EPP fell onto Säästäjänkatu in bad weather.
The aircraft's pilot, Pekka Männikkö, who lived in Sweden, was killed in the accident. In addition to the pilot there were three passengers on board, who survived the accident with minor scratches. Among the passengers were Aarne Mantila, managing director of Suomenlahden Kone Oy, and Pentti Hautala, municipal manager of Karvia.
The aircraft was en route from Kirkkojärvi in Karvia to Helsinki when 7 mm of ice had accumulated on the aircraft's wings. The pilot, Pekka Männikkö, tried to land at Härmälä airfield, but drifted too low and close to the houses of the Peltolammi residential area. The weather at the time of the accident was bad.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Finnish Wikipedia article “Peltolammin lento-onnettomuus 1974” (revision 22637797, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Finnish Wikipedia article: Peltolammin lento-onnettomuus 1974
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 22637797 · 2024-09-16 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q56333519
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- fi Wikipedia article "Peltolammin lento-onnettomuus 1974" (page 1419107, revision 22637797), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- not stated in the Wikipedia article's infobox or opening paragraph
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Finnish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.