42.1983° N, 89.5945° WPlaced by OpenAirDocs: center of Baileyville, IL, within about 6 miles.Open in the map
Date
August 22, 1987 · 16:18 local
Place
Baileyville, IL
Phase of flight
Unauth Low Level Opns
Operating rules
General operating rules (Part 91)
Damage
Destroyed
Aircraft
N8207B
Reported as
Cessna 172
Reported engine
Continental O300A
People aboard
3
Fatal injuries
3
Pilot’s flight hours
445 total414 in this make and model2 in the last 90 days
From the FAA’s Accident/Incident Data System (AIDS), through its Aviation Safety Information Portal, as reported. The NTSB investigates accidents separately, and its record of an accident is the fuller one. The aircraft is matched to the registry by N-number and event date, checked against the reported make and model; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
What happened
The FAA’s narrative, in sentence case. The FAA writes it in capitals and removes private details.
Stalled and crashed during a steep low altitude turn while looking for a missing model aircraft.
As the FAA filed it
STALLED AND CRASHED DURING A STEEP LOW ALTITUDE TURN WHILE LOOKING FOR A MISSING MODEL AIRCRAFT.