ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 130844
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Date: | Wednesday 14 June 1972 |
Time: | 08:15 |
Type: | Piper PA-28R |
Owner/operator: | Bush Aviation |
Registration: | N7573J |
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Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Atlantic Ocean off the Bahamas -
Bahamas
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Private |
Departure airport: | Abaco, Bahamas |
Destination airport: | Eleuthera, Bahamas |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:During descent to Eleuthera, Bahamas, engine failed without warning. Pilot switched fuel tanks, believing engine failure to be due to fuel starvation. He then attempted to re-start the engine, without success, and was forced to ditch the aircraft into the Altantic Ocean
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | |
Report number: | MIA72DKT82 |
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Sources:
https://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=65862&key=0 [NTSB Identification: MIA72DKT82]
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
08-Jan-2012 15:15 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Source, Narrative] |
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