Cessna 172 N8065B

20 April 1972 · Ptd.bight, Other-Foreign Countries · No injuries

Summary

On 20 April 1972 at about 00:35 local time, a Cessna 172 registered N8065B was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Ptd.bight, Other-Foreign Countries. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 20 April 1972 at 00:35
Classification: Accident
Location: Ptd.bight, Other-Foreign Countries
Nearest airport: Pigeon Island
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Cessna 172
Registration: N8065B
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Kingston, Jamaica → Mandeville, Jamaica
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 6-0072

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
1	0	0	0	1

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

FLEW INTO OCEAN ATTMPTING TO LND ON UNLTD STRIP DUE LOW FUEL & WEA.INVEST & REPTD, GOVT OF JAMAICA.

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 6-0072, 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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