- Date
- July 21, 1972
- Place
- Missing Aircraft · MISSING AIRCRAFT, UN
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N212ADPiper PA-31
- Status
- Completed · report January 9, 1973
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 167669
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1082 72/7/21 MISSING AIRCRAFT PIPER PA-31 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 45, 4100 TIME - 0810 N212AD PX- 0 0 0 BUSINESS TOTAL HOURS, UNK/NR IN DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION DETROIT,MICH MILWAUKEE,WIS TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION MISSING AIRCRAFT,NOT RECOVERED UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED REMARKS- ACFT BELIEVED TO BE IN LAKE MICHIGAN. ACFT DMG AND INJURY INDEX PRESUMED.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N212AD
- Reported as
- Piper PA-31
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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