Riggs Gyro C N9163

8 November 1970 · Adelanto, California, United States · Serious injuries

Summary

On 8 November 1970 at about 09:40 local time, a Riggs Gyro C registered N9163 was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Adelanto, California, United States. One person was on board and one was seriously injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 8 November 1970 at 09:40
Classification: Accident
Location: Adelanto, California, United States
Nearest airport: El Mirage
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Riggs Gyro C
Registration: N9163
Category: Gyroplane
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Experimentation
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-4137

People

1 person was seriously injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
1	0	1	0	0

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

DRY LAKE BED DUSTY DUE GRND TRAFFIC. EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF HOME BUILT ACFT.1 HR IN TYPE IN 90 DAYS.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 3-4137, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

Also in

United States 170,864 1970 4,980

Other accidents in this area

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
20 Jan 1970	Piper PA-28 N98044	Norwood, Massachusetts, United States no coordinates	E W Wiggins AI	No injuries	-
10 Mar 1970	Cessna 182 N71359	Albany, New York, United States no coordinates	McIntyre Aviat	No injuries	-
12 Apr 1970	N American SNJ-4 N6411D	Dothan, Alabama, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
8 Mar 1970	Cessna 182 N8862X	Ridgely, Maryland, United States no coordinates	Charles B Todd	No injuries	-
24 Jul 1970	Piper PA-28 N6505J	Torrance, California, United States no coordinates	Sperry Air SER	No injuries	-
12 Dec 1970	Aeronca 11AC N3247E	Butler, Georgia, United States no coordinates	-	Fatal	2

All 170,864 records in United States