Piper PA-32 N8965N

11 December 1971 · Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean South Lat. · No injuries

Summary

On 11 December 1971 at about 08:30 local time, a Piper PA-32 registered N8965N, operated by Blackwell Flyi, was involved in an accident during in flight near Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean South Lat.. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 11 December 1971 at 08:30
Classification: Accident
Location: Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean South Lat.
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-32
Registration: N8965N
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Blackwell Flyi
Operating rule: Fixed Base Operator
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Long Island, Bahamas → Jamaica
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-4094

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
2	0	0	0	2

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

ACFT NOT RCVRD FM DEEP WTR.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 3-4094, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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All 1,695 records for this type

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