Date:	Friday 15 December 1972
Time:	11:46
Type:	Learjet 23
Owner/operator:	Zantop International Airlines
Registration:	N20M
MSN:	23-094
Year of manufacture:	1966
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	1
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Detroit-Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, MI (DTW) -   United States of America
Phase:	Unknown
Nature:	Ferry/positioning
Departure airport:	Detroit-Metropolitan Wayne County Airport, MI (DTW/KDTW)
Destination airport:	Lexington-Blue Grass Airport, KY (LEX/KLEX)
Investigating agency:	NTSB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Ferry flight to Lexington, KY. Hit fuel storage tank when it failed to climb after takeoff from runway 03R.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "Undetermined."

NTSB

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