Cessna 172E N5733T

30 December 1971 · Exuma, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. · No injuries

Summary

On 30 December 1971 at about 12:30 local time, a Cessna 172E registered N5733T was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Exuma, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.. 5 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 30 December 1971 at 12:30
Classification: Accident
Location: Exuma, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.
Nearest airport: Staniel Cay Strip
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Cessna 172E
Registration: N5733T
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Nassau, Bahamas → S
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 6-0047

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
5	0	0	0	5

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.

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UNDER JURISDICTION OF THE GOVT OF THE BAHAMAS.

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 6-0047, 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 12,209 records for this type

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