Piper PA-23 N4444P

21 August 1972 · Virgin Gorda, Other-Foreign Countries · No injuries

Summary

On 21 August 1972 at about 16:35 local time, a Piper PA-23 registered N4444P, operated by All Islands AI, was involved in an incident during the landing phase of flight near Virgin Gorda, Other-Foreign Countries. 4 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was slightly damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 21 August 1972 at 16:35
Classification: Incident
Location: Virgin Gorda, Other-Foreign Countries
Nearest airport: Virgin Gorda
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-23
Registration: N4444P
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: All Islands AI
Operating rule: Air Taxi Operator
Purpose of flight: Air Taxi-Passenger Operations
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Beef Island, Bvi → S
Aircraft damage: Minor
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 5-0036

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
4	0	0	0	4

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

INVESTIGATION UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE GOVTOF THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS.

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 5-0036, 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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