ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 328782
| Date: | Thursday 21 September 1978 |
| Time: | 12:43 |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-3-277C |
| Owner/operator: | Argosy Air Lines |
| Registration: | N407D |
| MSN: | 2244 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1940 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | N off Havana, Cuba -
 Atlantic Ocean
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Fort Lauderdale International Airport, FL (FLL/KFLL) |
| Havana-José Martí International Airport (HAV/MUHA) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Argosy Air lines Flight 902 was operated by DC-3 N407D. The aircraft was to fly to Cuba to pick up 21 US citrus growers who were there on tour.
At 11:24 Flight 902 was cleared to taxi out from the Walkers Cay Jet Center to runway 09L for takeoff. At 11:29 they lifted off from Fort Lauderdale. Weather was fine as the DC-3 reached the cruising altitude of 6000 feet. At 12:25 the flight emerged on Havana's radar scopes, but the air traffic controller could not read any of the messages from the flight due to static. A high altitude plane relayed the messages to Havana and at 12:35 the messages became loud and clear. Eight minutes later the plane disappeared off the radar screens. The search for wreckage was called off at September 24.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Undetermined."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
Bermuda Triangle Mystery web site
NTSB
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Fort Lauderdale-Executive Airport, FL (FXE); October 1975
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