NTSB: Amateur-built airplane began to break up before crash

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A Nevada man's experimental small plane crashed in northwestern Arizona after breaking up in midair, according to a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report.

Federal authorities say 73-year-old Richard Moynihan was flying an experimental small plane when it started breaking apart mid-air and crashed near Kingman.A Nevada man's experimental small plane crashed in northwestern Arizona after breaking up in midair, according to a National Transportation Safety Board preliminary report released on March 17.

Mohave County Sheriff’s officials said previously that the pilot, 73-year-old Richard Dennis Moynihan of Boulder City, was the only person aboard the single-engine plane when it crashed Feb. 19 near Triangle Airpark about 45 miles northwest of Kingman. According to the NTSB 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,

"Several pieces of aircraft structure were seen falling from the airplane as it descended to the ground," the preliminary report said.More Arizona headlines:

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