Fly Baby 1A N609X

30 April 1981 · Zanesville, Ohio, United States · Fatal

Summary

On 30 April 1981 at about 17:35 local time, a Fly Baby 1A registered N609X was involved in an accident during the takeoff phase of flight near Zanesville, Ohio, United States. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 30 April 1981 at 17:35
Classification: Accident
Location: Zanesville, Ohio, United States
Nearest airport: Riverside
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Fly Baby 1A
Registration: N609X
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Takeoff
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-1436

People

1 person died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
1	1	0	0	0

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.

Where

Approximate

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39.9404, -82.0132
Approximate. The NTSB did not record coordinates, so this marker sits at the centre of Zanesville, Ohio, United States, not at the accident site. How this is worked out.

Source

NTSB record 3-1436, 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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Other Fly Baby 1 accidents

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
30 Sep 1979	Fly-Baby 1-A N6518	Watertown, Wisconsin, United States approximate position	-	Fatal	1
2 Dec 1978	Fly Baby 1A N8371	Moncks Corner, South Carolina, United States approximate position	-	Fatal	1
17 Jun 1977	Fly Baby 1-A N7105	Flint, Michigan, United States approximate position	-	No injuries	-
4 Jun 1977	Fly-Baby 1A N5550	Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States approximate position	-	Fatal	1
5 Jun 1976	Fly Baby 1A N3776	Ft Lauderdale, Florida, United States approximate position	-	Fatal	1
26 May 1986	Fly Baby 1-A N4762	Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania, United States	-	No injuries	-

All 12 records for this type

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Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
23 Jan 1981	Cessna 150 N6676S	Ellenville, New York, United States approximate position	-	No injuries	-
7 Jan 1981	Aerospatial AS-350 N3605Z	Garden City, New York, United States approximate position	Island Helicop	Minor injuries	-
26 Mar 1981	Cessna 172 N8870B	Payson, Arizona, United States approximate position	-	No injuries	-
18 Apr 1981	Cessna 172 N8379B	Cullison, Kansas, United States approximate position	-	Serious injuries	-
21 Jan 1981	Cessna 500 N501GP	Bluefield, West Virginia, United States approximate position	Georgia-Pacifi	Fatal	5
16 Jun 1981	Bell 212 N64730	Angleton, Texas, United States approximate position	Houston Helico	Minor injuries	-

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