| Date: | Wednesday 12 September 1979 |
| Time: | 06:15 |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46A-60-CK Commando |
| Owner/operator: | Rich International Airways |
| Registration: | N7768B |
| MSN: | 467 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 1,6 km W off South Caicos International Airport (XSC) -
 Turks and Caicos Islands
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Grand Turk Island Airport (GDT/MBJT) |
| South Caicos International Airport (XSC/MBSC) |
Ditched after engine failure just short of the South Caicos runway 11.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
Location
Images:
photo (c) Austin John Brown LBIPP/www.aviationpictures.com; 1,6 km off South Caicos International Airport (XSC); March 1980
photo (c) Austin John Brown LBIPP/www.aviationpictures.com; 1,6 km off South Caicos International Airport (XSC); March 1980
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Miami International Airport, FL (MIA); July 1974
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