- Date
- May 4, 1969
- Place
- Wheeling, IL · WHEELING, IL
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N174DStits SA-3B
- Status
- Completed · report June 26, 1969
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 182372
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
On this page
NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1157 69/5/4 WHEELING,ILL STITS SA-3B CR- 0 1 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 34, 360 TIME - 1830 N174D PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 270 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - CHICAGOLAND TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION STALL IN FLIGHT: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - FAILED TO OBTAIN/MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED REMARKS- PRACTICING SLOW FLIGHT.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N174D
- Reported as
- Stits SA-3B
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Chicagoland