# Accident 20060420012149A: Amtr SKYBOY, Huntington, IN, April 20, 2006

- Type: FAA accident report (Accident/Incident Data System), as reported
- Date: April 20, 2006, 15:30 local time
- Place: Huntington, IN
- Airport: Huntington Municipal Airport
- Damage: Destroyed
- Phase of flight: Normal Cruise
- Operating rules: General operating rules (Part 91)
- Location: 40.8529° N, 85.4571° W: Placed by OpenAirDocs at HUNTINGTON MUNI (HHG), within about a mile (OpenAirDocs)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=40.8529&lon=-85.4571&mi=10
- Aircraft: N758RW, a cancelled registration (https://openairdocs.org/deregistered/N758RW-2008-04-09) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry model: Woods Richard E SKYBOY QUICK KIT (registry code 05619D5, https://openairdocs.org/model/woods-richard-e-skyboy-quick-kit) (OpenAirDocs)
- Registry engine: Rotax SEE BOMBADIER (registry code 55555, https://openairdocs.org/engine/rotax-see-bombadier) (OpenAirDocs)
- Reported make and model: AMTR SKYBOY
- People aboard: 1
- Fatal injuries: 1
- Pilot flight hours: 1,000 total, 8 in this make and model, 8 in the last 90 days
- FAA source: FAA Aviation Safety Information Portal (https://asip.faa.gov/)
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/incident/20060420012149A

## Narrative

As the FAA filed it, in capitals; the FAA replaces private details with ^PRIVACY DATA OMITTED^.

(-23) AN EXPERIMENTAL AMATEUR BUILT AIRCRAFT, SKYBOY, N758RW WAS DESTROYED AFTER IMPACTING THE GROUND. WITNESSES STATED THE AIRCRAFT HAD BEEN CIRCLING THE AREA "ENGINE SOUNDED NORMAL THEN ALL OF THE SUDDEN THE AIRCRAFT BEGAN TO SPIRAL DOWNWARD TO THE LEFT AT A VERY STEEP ANGLE." ANOTHER WITNESS STATED THAT THE PILOT HAD LANDED AT HER HOME AT APPROXIMATELY 3:00-3:10 PM AND LOOKED LIKE A "MAN WHO HAD BEEN BEHIND A TEAM OF MULES PLOWING ALL DAY AND HE WAS DRIPPING WITH SWEAT AND SEEMED EXHAUSTED." THE AIRCRAFT CRASHED AT APPROXIMATELY 3:39 PILOT WAS THE ONLY OCCUPANT AND FATAL. AN AUTOPSY REPORT FROM THE HUNTINGTON, IN CORONER'S OFFICE STATED THAT PATHOLOGIST ^PRIVACY DATA OMI^ DETERMINED THE DECEDENT EXPERIENCED A CORONARY THROMBOSIS PRIOR TO THE AIRCRAFT CRASH. THE PILOT (DECEDENT) HAD A MEDICAL HISTORY OF HEART DISEASE.

## NTSB investigation

None matched to this report by aircraft and date. Search the NTSB's own records: https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

From the FAA Accident/Incident Data System. Reports are matched to registry aircraft 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. For accidents, the NTSB's own investigation is the fuller record.

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