Piper PA-24-250 N7841P

Summary

On 1 August 1987 at about 15:53 local time, a Piper PA-24-250 registered N7841P was involved in an accident near Kokomo, Indiana, United States. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

1 August 1987 at 15:53

Classification

Accident

Location

Kokomo, Indiana, United States

Coordinates

40.5304, -86.1692

Aircraft

Piper PA-24-250

Registration

N7841P

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Nashville → Elkhart

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

IMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

FTW87FA183

1 person died.

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

THE PLTS PREFLT WX BRIEFING REVEALED MARGINAL VFR & IFR WX ALONG HIS PROPOSED ROUTE, WITH A PRECAUTION FOR THUNDERSTORMS. AN IFR FLT PLAN WAS FILED AND THE ACFT DEPARTED. LATER DURING FLT THE PLT WAS RADIOED INFO ABOUT A CONVECTIVE SIGMET THAT CONTAINED A LINE OF T-STORMS REACHING 45000 FT ACROSS HIS ROUTE. THE PLT STATED THAT HE WANTED TO CONTINUE ON ROUTE & WOULD CHECK BACK LATER. ABOUT 20 MIN LATER THE PLT WAS WARNED THAT HE WAS ABOUT TO ENTER HEAVY PRECIP AND WAS OFFERED AN ESCAPE ROUTE. HIS LAST TRANSMISSION WAS 'OK FOUR ONE POP.' A FEW MINUTES LATER HIS TRANSPONDER CODE WAS LOST ON RADAR. THE ACFT WAS AT 9000 FT MSL AND EXPERIENCED INFLT SEPARATION OF BOTH WINGS.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.