Date:	Friday 21 July 1972
Time:	08:10 LT
Type:	Piper PA-31 Navajo
Owner/operator:	Equitable Engineering Inc
Registration:	N212AD
MSN:	31-160
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	Lake Michigan, between Detroit, MI and Milwaukee, WI -   United States of America
Phase:	Unknown
Nature:	Executive
Departure airport:	Detroit, Michigan
Destination airport:	Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Investigating agency:	NTSB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Written off (missing presumed destroyed) 21 July 1972: Aircraft went missing en route, and is believed to have been ditched into Lake Michigan whilst flying from Detroit, Michigan, to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Aircraft damage and injury index - pilot killed - presumed as the wreckage of the aircraft, and the body of the pilot - the sole person on board - were never found

1. NTSB Identification: CHI73AC006 at https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=65786&key=0
2. http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=212AD
3. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.baaa-acro.com/1972/archives/crash-of-a-piper-pa-31-navajo-chieftain-in-lake-michigan-1-killed/]

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-Feb-2008 12:00	ASN archive	Added
19-Jan-2012 14:00	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
22-Apr-2015 23:49	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Location, Source, Narrative, ]
26-Apr-2015 23:09	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Narrative, ]
15-Sep-2017 18:57	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Nature, Destination airport, Narrative, ]
15-Sep-2017 18:58	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Aircraft type, ]
29-Oct-2019 17:44	Uli Elch	Updated [Aircraft type, ]