- Date
- August 5, 1966
- Place
- Kingsdown, KS · KINGSDOWN, KS
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N7602KPiper PA-20
- Status
- Completed · report March 15, 1967
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 122499
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0870 66/8/5 NR.KINGSDOWN KANS PIPER PA-20 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 46, 2200 TIME - 1450 N7602K PX- 1 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, UNK/NR IN DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED REMARKS- POST MORTEM EXAM INDICATES POSSIBLITY PLT HAD HEART ATTACK DUE TO PRE-EXISTING HEART CONDITION.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7602K
- Reported as
- Piper PA-20
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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