Beechcraft C-45H N9863Z

25 January 1973 · Louisville, Kentucky, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 25 January 1973 at about 01:50 local time, a Beechcraft C-45H registered N9863Z, operated by Sierra West AI, was involved in an accident during in flight near Louisville, Kentucky, 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: 25 January 1973 at 01:50
Classification: Accident
Location: Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Nearest airport: Standiford Field
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Beechcraft C-45H
Registration: N9863Z
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Sierra West AI
Operating rule: Air Taxi Operator
Purpose of flight: Air Taxi-Cargo Operations
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Cincinnati, Ohio → S
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 3-0344

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

T FITTING MADE OF ALUMINUM, SHOULD HAVE BEEN STEEL.PLT DID NOT TURN OFF BOOST PUMP OR MASTER SWITCH

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 3-0344, 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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