Piper PA-44-180 N294ND

Summary

On 3 October 2000 at about 01:33 local time, a Piper PA-44-180 registered N294ND was involved in an accident near Rapid City, South Dakota, United States. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

3 October 2000 at 01:33

Classification

Accident

Location

Rapid City, South Dakota, United States

Nearest airport

Rapid City Regional Airport (RAP)

Coordinates

44.0001, -103.0394

Aircraft

Piper PA-44-180

Registration

N294ND

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Fairburn → Rapid City

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

VMC

Light

Night

NTSB number

CHI01FA001

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 airplane was destroyed during an in-flight collision with the terrain following an intentional pitch-up maneuver, approximately at mid-field to an altitude of 1,000 feet above ground level, and subsequent intentional nose-down maneuver which resulted in the collision with the runway. According to an Investigation Report prepared by the Pennington County Sheriff's Office, the pilot's cause of death was, "...blunt force trauma due to an airplane crash with the manner of death as suicide."

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.