Skip to content

FTW73AF039

1973-01-24 · BURNS FLAT, Oklahoma, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N152 has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (VAN'S AIRCRAFT RV-6A, built 1999), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
LOCKHEED TV-2 · N152
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D9
Operator type
G
Kind of flying
DB

Weather at impact

Sky
CLEAR
Wind
300° / 5 kt
Temp
39° F

Aircraft history

Serial number
000000128671
Total time
6,626 hrs

Pilot

Certificate
GA (GA)
Total hours
15,955
Age
56

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

W.

Investigator remarks

PLT HAD HI BLOOD PRESSURE COND. FAA ACFT AND CRE

Cause factors

  • 64/A/64 A
    PILOT IN COMMAND INCAPACITATION Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/A/65 A
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS PILOT SUFFERED HEART ATTACK Cause — pilot/personnel action

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0419. Source file NTSB_1973_3_0419.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

Search this event elsewhere

External sources are reported, not agency: signal that something happened, not fact about what happened.