ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 328206
| Date: | Saturday 15 November 1980 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando |
| Owner/operator: | private |
| Registration: | N355BY |
| MSN: | 30243 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | off Norman's Cay -
 Bahamas
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Norman's Cay Airport (NMC/MYEN) |
| Norman's Cay Airport (NMC/MYEN) |
The Curtiss C-46A cargo plane, N355BY, had been flown to Norman's Cay Airport, Bahamas, after being bought by a British pilot.
The pilot was performing touch-and-goes at the airport when the aircraft touched down short. He execute a go-around, but clipped an earthen berm, tearing the left landing gear loose from its housing. The no.1 propeller blades contacted the runway. The aircraft banked left and gained little altitude. It cleared the runway and came down in shallow water.
The wreck is still present in Norman's Cay.
Sources:
The Plane Wreck of Normans Cay / by Mariah Moyle
Location
Images:
photo (c) Daniel Piraino; Norman's Cay; 23 July 2016; (publicdomain)
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Fort Lauderdale International Airport, FL (FLL); October 1975
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