ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 192034
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| Date: | Thursday 15 December 2016 |
| Time: | 15:00 |
| Type: |  Piper PA-11 |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N5028H |
| MSN: | 11-908 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1949 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-320 SERIES |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Marvel Dome, AK -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Aniak, AK (ANI) |
| Aniak, AK | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The private pilot and a passenger departed on a flight to an airstrip about 40 nautical miles away. When they failed to return as scheduled, family members notified law enforcement, and the wreckage was subsequently located in an area of snow-covered, rising terrain. Postaccident examination of the wreckage revealed no mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.
Following a death investigation, the State Medical Examiner classified the manner of death as a suicide.
Probable Cause: The pilot's intentional flight of the airplane into terrain in an act of suicide.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
FAA register: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=N5028H
Location
Media:
#Crash Aniak couple died together in 2016 plane crash described as \'act of suicide\' - Alaska… https://t.co/BpQ3T4sLKQ via #hng #news pic.twitter.com/yYL1tfkFMx
— ASSIMILATION (@4ASSIMILATION) 3 juillet 2017
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Dec-2016 09:45 | gerard57 | Added |
| 17-Dec-2016 16:28 | Geno | Updated [Source] |
| 19-Dec-2016 17:09 | Geno | Updated [Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Destination airport, Source] |
| 05-Jan-2017 17:36 | Aerossurance | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Source, Narrative] |
| 04-Jul-2017 06:39 | Iceman 29 | Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 06-Jul-2017 23:16 | Aerossurance | Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative] |
| 19-Aug-2017 16:01 | ASN Update Bot | Updated [Time, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Embed code, Damage, Narrative] |
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