| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | May 09, 1970 |
| Time: | 2128 |
| Location: | Pellston, Michigan |
| Operator: | Executive Jet Sales Inc. |
| Flight #: | ? |
| Route: | Detroit - Pellston |
| AC Type: | Gates Learjet 23 |
| Registration: | N434EJ |
| cn / ln: | 23-046 |
| Aboard: | 6 (passengers:4 crew:2) |
| Fatalities: | 6 (passengers:4 crew:2) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | The aircraft, cleared for an instrument landing, broke through scattered clouds at 400 feet, landing short of the runway, crashing into trees and exploding into a ball of fire. Illusions produced by the lack of visual cues during a circling approach over unlighted terrain at night to a runway not equipped with approach lights or other visual approach aides. Possibility of altimeter error. United Auto Worker's President, Walter Reuther, 63, and his wife killed along with Oskar Stronorov, William Wolfman and pilots George Evans and Joseph Karrafa. |
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