- Date
- September 6, 1964
- Place
- Suffield, CT · SUFFIELD, CT
- Injuries
- 2 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Uncontrolled descent
- Aircraft
- N5346KRyan Navion
- Status
- Completed · report January 12, 1965
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 182675
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2-0674 64/9/6 SUFFIELD CONN RYAN NAVION CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 43, 1050 TIME - 1310 N5346K PX- 1 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, UNK/NR IN DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED IN FLIGHT: UNCONTROLLED DESCENT PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - INCAPACITATION REMARKS- INCAPACITATING AMOUNT OF ACETALDEHYDE IN PILOT PILOT-POSSIBLE SELF DESTRUCTION-USE OF DRUGS
Aircraft
- Registration
- N5346K
- Reported as
- Ryan Navion
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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