Accident · 1996-08-08
What the record says
- Event date
- 1996-08-08
- Event type
- Accident
- Highest injury level
- Fatal injury
- Aircraft
- Piper PA-28-181 (N9137N)
- Operating rule
- Part 91
- Operator
- operator not named in the NTSB record
Probable cause
the inadvertent flight of the airplane by the pilot-in-command into a thunderstorm. The weather was a factor.
Source: NTSB case CHI96FA284Flight crew
Flight-crew details for this event aren't in the NTSB database extract we hold (its coverage starts with 2008 events) — a gap in our data, not an absence of crew.
Facts as the NTSB records them — GroundCheck adds no judgement. Preliminary records may be revised as the investigation proceeds.