ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 6485
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| Date: | Saturday 20 March 1965 |
| Time: | afternoon |
| Type: |  Cessna 170B |
| Owner/operator: | Joan Williams |
| Registration: | N2522C |
| MSN: | 26166 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | South-west of Ludington, Michigan -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | Wings Airport, Chicago, Illinois |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Cessna 170B N2522C went missing March 20, 1965. Aircraft presumed written off, and the pilot (sole person on board) killed. Aircraft departed Chicago,Illinois Area; pilot's flight intentions unknwn. Aircraft damage and injury index presumed, as no trace of the aircraft ot the pilot was ever found. According to one published source (see link #3):
"WHERE IS JOAN WILLIAMS?
One of the strangest cases in the annals of the Lake Michigan Triangle took place 32 years ago this week. She was Joan Williams, 39, a Chicago Heights (Illinois) schoolteacher who owned a Cessna 170B, N2522C. She left Wings Airport, Chicago, at noon on a Saturday morning, March 20, 1965, carrying fuel sufficient for four hours, 30 minutes. She was not on a flight plan. She has not been seen since.
For some reason the case stimulated the interest of the Chicago newspapers. It stayed in the headlines for weeks as officials searched vainly for some evidence of what happened. Virtually everyone Miss Williams knew was contacted. Her bank records and personal life were investigated thoroughly on the chance that the disappearance was intentional
The lake (Lake Michigan) was combed for some scrap of wreckage that might solve the mystery. But the search was in vain. Joan Williams's Cessna vanished from the FAA radar scope while the plane was airborne southwest of Ludington, Michigan. She has not been seen since."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. NTSB Identification: CHI65A0083 at https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/Results.aspx?queryId=93f9c627-52ab-463c-baa4-6c00a442bf79
2. FAA: https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?omni=Home-N-Number&nNumberTxt=N2522C
3. http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/ufor2n12.htm
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Feb-2008 12:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 09-Feb-2019 18:56 | Dr. John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 09-Aug-2023 15:17 | BEAVERSPOTTER | Updated [[Time, Operator, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]] |
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