| Date: | Sunday 26 August 1979 |
| Time: | 04:50 |
| Type: |  Convair CV-440 |
| Owner/operator: | Cornerstone Construction Inc. ? |
| Registration: | N14478 |
| MSN: | 103 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1953 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | San Juan-Isla Verde International Airport (SJU) -
 Puerto Rico
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Illegal Flight |
| Departure airport: | |
| San Juan-Isla Verde International Airport (SJU/TJSJ) |
Because of problems extending the right main landing gear, two touch and go landings were made. The pilot then chose to carry out a gear-up landing on runway 10. The 3 occupants were seen running from the plane. Part of the right main gear and the outboard 5 feet of the right horizontal stabilizer and elevator were missing. Presumed smuggling flight.
Sources:
Aviation Letter
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 22 December 1962 | PP-VCQ | Varig | 1 | near Brasilia, DF |  |
w/o |
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Saint Louis-Lambert International Airport, MO (STL); September 1977
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