Piper PA-30 N71AD

20 September 1973 · Laurens, Iowa, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 20 September 1973 at about 01:00 local time, a Piper PA-30 registered N71AD, operated by Dudley Impleme, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Laurens, Iowa, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 20 September 1973 at 01:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Laurens, Iowa, United States
Nearest airport: Laurens Skyways
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-30
Registration: N71AD
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Dudley Impleme
Operating rule: Corporate/Executive
Purpose of flight: Business
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Emmetsburg, Iowa → S
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Moonlight-Bright)
NTSB number: 3-2873

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
1	0	0	0	1

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

UNLIGHTED RUNWAY.LNDD ALONGSIDE TURF RWY DRG ROLL SAW TREE UN AVOID.

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 3-2873, 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.

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