| Date: | Tuesday 18 July 1978 |
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| Type: | Piper PA-31-310 Navajo |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N689WW |
| MSN: | 31-69 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1967 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Antillean Sea, off the coast of Haiti -
Haiti
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Santa Marta Airport, Colombia (SMR/SKSM) |
| Destination airport: | Port-au-Prince Airport, Haiti (PAP/MTPP) |
| Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Presumed written off (destroyed) 18 July 1978 when aircraft went missing on a flight between Santa Maria Airport, Colombia, and Port-au-Prince, Haiti; presumed to have crashed into the Antillean Sea off the cost of Haiti, both persons on board (pilot and one passenger) never recovered, presumed killed.
Accident investigation:
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| Report number: | MIA78DA119 |
| Status: | Investigation completed |
| Duration: | |
| Download report: | Final report
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Sources:
1. NTSB Identification: MIA78DA119 at
https://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=40498&key=0 2. FAA:
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=689WW 3.
http://strange-triangle.blogspot.co.uk/2009_09_13_archive.html 4.
http://scientific-swapnil.blogspot.com/2009/12/list-of-lost-aircrafts.html 5. [LINK NOT WORKING ANYMORE:http://www.baaa-acro.com/1978/archives/crash-of-a-piper-pa-31-navajo-chieftain-in-antillean-sea-2-killed/]
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
| 25-Feb-2008 12:00 |
ASN archive |
Added |
| 24-Jan-2010 11:15 |
harro |
Updated [Location, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Damage, ] |
| 18-Aug-2012 16:53 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Operator, Location, Country, Nature, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 10-May-2015 01:31 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |