Lake LA-4 N6183V

25 August 1980 · Highland Park, Illinois, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 25 August 1980 at about 12:00 local time, a Lake LA-4 registered N6183V, operated by Wynkoop Associ, was involved in an accident during the takeoff phase of flight near Highland Park, Illinois, 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 August 1980 at 12:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Highland Park, Illinois, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Lake LA-4
Registration: N6183V
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Wynkoop Associ
Operating rule: Corporate/Executive
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Takeoff
Route: S → Wheeling, Il
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-2291

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

1200FT GRASS AREA.DA APRX 2300FT.

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 3-2291, 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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