- Date
- March 26, 1972
- Place
- Appleton, WI · APPLETON, WI
- Injuries
- 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N5RKMustang M-1
- Status
- Completed · report October 10, 1972
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 165907
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0376 72/3/26 APPLETON,WIS MUSTANG M-1 CR- 0 1 0 MISCELLANEOUS PRIVATE, AGE 35, UNK/NR TIME - 0806 N5RK PX- 0 0 0 TEST TOTAL HOURS, UNK/NR IN DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - OUTAGAMIE DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION APPLETON,WIS LOCAL TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - PRECAUTIONARY LANDING OFF AIRPORT LATERAL CONTROL PROBLEM SUSPECTED MECHANICAL DISCREPANCY REMARKS- INITIAL FLT OF ACFT. SPLIT FLAP CONDITION FOUND, UNDETERMINED REASON DUE IMPACT DMG.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5RK
- Reported as
- Mustang M-1
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Outagamie
N5RKRegistration cancelled Mar 3, 2011 · Kositzke-Ronald MIDGET MUSTANG M-1Airframe modelKositzke-Ronald MIDGET MUSTANG M-1
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.