Accident · 2002-08-12
What the record says
- Event date
- 2002-08-12
- Event type
- Accident
- Highest injury level
- Fatal injury
- Aircraft
- Cessna 152 (N49998)
- Operating rule
- Part 91
- Operator
- Silverhawk Aviation, Inc. Operator named in NTSB report
- Operated by (per NTSB report)
- Silverhawk Aviation
Probable cause
The pilot's intentional flight of the airplane into terrain in an act of suicide.
Source: NTSB case FTW02FA233Flight 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.