Date:	07-JAN-2012
Time:	13:24
Type:	Cirrus SR22 GTS
Owner/operator:	M & W Aviation LLC
Registration:	N723EA
MSN:	1512
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Category:	Accident
Location:	Off the coast of Andros, Bahamas -   Bahamas
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	KTMB
Destination airport:	MTPP

Narrative:
The pilot of a Cirrus SR22 GTS activated the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) after an engine failure. The aircraft came down just off the coast of Andros, Bahamas.

The U. S. Coast Guard deployed a HC-144 Ocean Sentry fixed-wing aircraft from Miami to locate the aircraft after a distress call.

Both occupants survived unhurt and were were hoisted into a U. S. Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter from an emergency inflatable raft and flown to Odyssey Airport in Nassau, Bahamas

https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Coast-Guard-Rescues-Air-Crash-Survivors-Off-Coast-of-Bahamas-136902393.html
https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N723EA
https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/01/pair-survive-plane-crash-at-sea-on-way-to-charity-mission-in-haiti/
https://www.ntsb.gov/aviationquery/brief.aspx?ev_id=20120110X04011&key=1

http://stlair.com/images/DSC03286.JPG (photo)
https://flightaware.com/photos/view/195669-27a759d8f3cf05ec2dd56019adab13f6e220492b/aircrafttype/SR22

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
08-Jan-2012 09:09	RobertMB	Added
08-Jan-2012 09:11	RobertMB	Updated [Registration]
08-Jan-2012 11:44	Geno	Updated [Source]
10-Jan-2012 12:39	PC12	Updated [Source]
11-Feb-2012 16:27	Geno	Updated [Time, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source]
21-Dec-2016 19:26	ASN Update Bot	Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency]