- Date
- June 13, 1973
- Place
- Prescott, WI · PRESCOTT, WI
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N8669EMoonraker 100
- Status
- Completed · report August 13, 1973
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19730613018789A
- Case key
- 189870
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-2844 73/6/13 PRESCOTT,WIS MOONRAKER 100 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 36, 448 TIME - 1940 N8669E PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, 2 IN TYPE, DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION PRESCOTT,WIS RED WING,MINN TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: OTHER PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED FACTOR(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT FIRE AFTER IMPACT REMARKS- TOOK OFF WITH FOUR KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIP.FUEL SELECT FOUND OFF.ACFT DESTROYED BY FIRE.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N8669E
- Reported as
- Moonraker 100
- Category
- Airplane, amateur-built
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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FAA reports on this event · 1
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Other investigations on N8669E · 1
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