Piper PA-28-181 N4326P

Summary

On 23 November 1986 at about 02:00 local time, a Piper PA-28-181 registered N4326P was involved in an accident near Summersville, Missouri, United States. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

23 November 1986 at 02:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Summersville, Missouri, United States

Coordinates

37.1703, -91.6495

Aircraft

Piper PA-28-181

Registration

N4326P

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Rolla → Springfield

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

IMC

Light

Night/Dark

NTSB number

MKC87FA022

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 PIC HAD FLOWN HIS ACFT FM SPRINGFIELD, MO TO OLATHE, KANSAS TO HAVE SOME REPAIR WORK ACCOMPLISHED AND WAS TO RETURN THAT SAME DAY. THE PIC NEVER RETURNED TO SPRINGFIELD. THE PIC HAD FLOWN TO SALEM, ILL WHERE WITNESSES STATED THEY OBSERVED THAT HE WAS CONFUSED AND DISORIENTED. THE PIC TRIED TO RETURN TO SPRINGFIELD, THE NEXT DAY, BUT STOPPED SHORT AT ROLLA, MISSOURI. AGAIN WITNESSES AT ROLLA STATED THAT THE PIC WAS CONFUSED AND DISORIENTED. THE PIC WAS ON THE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS TENORMIN AND LIBRIUM. BOTH OF THESE DRUGS HAVE WARNINGS THAT INCLUDE CONFUSION, DISORIENTATION AS SIDE EFFECTS. WEATHER IN THE CRASH SITE WHICH OCCURRED AT NIGHT, INCLUDED LOW CEILINGS AND FOG AND THE PIC WAS NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. THE FORECASTED WX FOR THE FLT TO SPRINGFIELD WAS VFR.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.