A National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report released Thursday says a Nevada man’s experimental small plane crashed northwest of Kingman after it began to break-up in midair.
Mohave County Sheriff’s officials said previously that 73-year-old Richard Dennis Moynihan of Boulder City, Nevada, was the only person aboard the single-engine plane when it crashed Feb. 19.
According to the N-T-S-B preliminary report, the amateur-built Vans RV-7A had “an in-flight breakup” while making a rapid, descending turn and then spiraled nose-down into the ground.
The report said several pieces fell from the airplane as it went down.