Date:	Wednesday 6 December 1967
Time:	18:30 LT
Type:	Piper PA-30-160 Twin Comanche
Owner/operator:	Northern Air Service
Registration:	N8071Y
MSN:	30-1185
Year of manufacture:	1966
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	GRAND RAPIDS Airport, GRAND RAPIDS, Kent County, Michigan -   United States of America
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi
Departure airport:
Destination airport:	GRAND RAPIDS KENT COUNTY AIRPORT
Investigating agency:	NTSB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Written off (destroyed) December 6, 1967 when crashed on approach to GRAAND RAPIDS City Airport, GRAND RAPIDSl, Kent County, Michigan: aircraft crashed near ILS outer marker. Pilot had flown over two hours before accident in actual IFR weather. The pilot - the sole person on board - was killed. According to the following excerpt from the official NTSB report into the accident:

"PROBABLE CAUSE(S)
PILOT IN COMMAND - IMPROPER OPERATION OF FLIGHT CONTROLS - SPATIAL DISORIENTATION
FACTOR(S)
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS - PILOT FATIGUE"

AIRCRAFT NEVER REPORTED OUTER MARKER INBOUND SECOND TIME.

1. NTSB Identification: CHI68F0499 at https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=15850&key=0
2. FAA: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=8071Y
3. http://planecrashmap.com/plane/mi/N8071Y/

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-Feb-2008 12:00	ASN archive	Added
21-Jan-2017 23:02	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Operator, Location, Phase, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
21-Jan-2017 23:03	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative, ]
21-Jan-2017 23:21	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative, ]
21-Jan-2017 23:21	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative, ]
08-Jul-2019 19:50	BEAVERSPOTTER	Updated [Cn, ]
21-Dec-2019 16:51	KEN POIRIER	Updated [Location, Destination airport, Narrative, ]