ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 188009
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| Date: | 02-FEB-1949 |
| Time: | 10:30 |
| Type: |  Luscombe 8A Master |
| Owner/operator: | Tropical Aviation Company |
| Registration: | NC2123K |
| MSN: | 4850 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 25 mi in the Florida Gulf off Crystal River, FL -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Albert Whitted Airport, St Petersburg Florida |
| Athens Georgia | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
A Flight instructor was flying one passenger-a husband hurrying to side of his ill wife.
Over Crystal River the plane engine was heard as it entered turbulent weather; plane was missing.
In 1956 25 miles in the Gulf a Fisherman hooked on his anchor a five foot section of wing tip and allegedly saw outline of a plane; he marked place with buoy; when a search party returned the buoy had broken loose and plane was not located; however numbers on wing were from the missing plane.
Sources:
St Petersburg Times July 25, 1963
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19630725&id=BxUmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=d1IDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4166,2228548&hl=en
https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?NNumberTxt=2123K
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 5 Aug 1947 | LN-MAG | Widerøes Flyveselskap | Bodø |  |
w/o |
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Jun-2016 08:21 | Noman | Added |
| 10-Jun-2016 08:22 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, Narrative] |
| 12-Aug-2018 20:58 | TB | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Location, Damage, Narrative] |
| 08-Jan-2022 22:44 | Cobar | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Source] |
| 08-Jan-2022 22:44 | Cobar | Updated [Phase, Nature] |
| 15-May-2022 04:11 | Ron Averes | Updated [Aircraft type] |
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