Piper PA-23 N112MW

5 December 1972 · Coakly Twn, Other-Foreign Countries · Serious injuries

Summary

On 5 December 1972 at about 15:20 local time, a Piper PA-23 registered N112MW was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Coakly Twn, Other-Foreign Countries. 2 people were on board and one was seriously injured, one had minor injuries. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 5 December 1972 at 15:20
Classification: Accident
Location: Coakly Twn, Other-Foreign Countries
Nearest airport: Andros
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-23
Registration: N112MW
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Freeport, Bahamas → Andros Town, Bahamas
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 6-0059

People

1 person was seriously injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
2	0	1	1	0

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

R ENG QUIT, UN MAINTAIN FLT. INVESTIGATION UNDER JURISDICTION OF GOVT OF BAHAMAS.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No position. The source record has no latitude and longitude, and it names no place or airport that could be looked up, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 6-0059, 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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