Date:	Friday 16 December 1977
Time:	20:03 LT
Type:	Piper PA-31-300 Navajo
Owner/operator:	Growth Air Inc
Registration:	N483LC
MSN:	31-426
Year of manufacture:	1969
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Category:	Accident
Location:	off Kingston -   Jamaica
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Soledad Airport, Barranquilla, Columbia (SKBQ)
Destination airport:	Tampa International Airport, Tampa, Florida (TPA/KTPA)
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Written off (destroyed) when ditched into the sea off Kingston, Jamaica on 16 December 1977, en route between Barranquilla, Columbia, and Tampa, Florida.

Pilot reported he lost both engines, and was ditching. Aircraft not recovered. Damage and injury index presumed, as no trace of the aircraft wreckage or the 28-year-old pilot (sole person on board) was ever found

1. NTSB Identification: MIA78DA023 at https://www.ntsb.gov/about/employment/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=43821&key=0
2. FAA: http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=483LC

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
25-Feb-2008 12:00	ASN archive	Added
22-Apr-2015 23:41	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Time, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
09-May-2015 20:07	Dr. John Smith	Updated [Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ]
10-Jan-2022 22:11	Ron Averes	Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Damage, ]