Unregistered gyrocopter crashed under unknown circumstances, Mount Pleasant, Utah

FAA IDENTIFICATION
  Regis#: UNREG        Make/Model: EXP       Description: UNREGISTERED GYROCOPTER
  Date: 07/15/2012     Time: 0205

  Event Type: Accident   Highest Injury: Serious     Mid Air: N    Missing: N
  Damage: Destroyed

LOCATION
  City: MOUNT PLEASANT   State: UT   Country: US

DESCRIPTION
  UNREGISTERED GYROCOPTER CRASHED UNDER UNKNOWN CIRCUMSTANCES, MOUNT 
  PLEASANT, UT

INJURY DATA      Total Fatal:   0
                 # Crew:   1     Fat:   0     Ser:   1     Min:   0     Unk:    
                 # Pass:   0     Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:    
                 # Grnd:         Fat:   0     Ser:   0     Min:   0     Unk:    


OTHER DATA
  Activity: Unknown      Phase: Unknown      Operation: OTHER


  FAA FSDO: SALT LAKE CITY, UT  (NM07)            Entry date: 07/16/2012 

MT. PLEASANT, Sanpete County — A 45-year-old Moroni man is in critical condition following a small aircraft crash Saturday night.

Witnesses said a gyrocopter operated by Wade Roundy was being towed down the runway by Roundy's wife for an assisted takeoff about 8 p.m. when the pilot apparently lost control and crashed. The gyrocopter was likely an unpowered aircraft intended for training, according to the manager of the Mt. Pleasant Airport.

Roundy was taken to Sanpete Valley Hospital in critical condition and later flown by medical helicopter to another hospital in Provo.

Contributing: Roger Cary 

Photo Courtesy of Christian Probasco

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