Beechcraft 95-B55 N1692W

4 March 1973 · Barranquilla, South America · Serious injuries

Summary

On 4 March 1973 at about 11:45 local time, a Beechcraft 95-B55 registered N1692W, operated by Lease-A-Plane, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Barranquilla, South America. 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: 4 March 1973 at 11:45
Classification: Accident
Location: Barranquilla, South America
Nearest airport: Barranquilla Intl
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Beechcraft 95-B55
Registration: N1692W
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Lease-A-Plane
Operating rule: Fixed Base Operator
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: S → Kingston, Jamaica
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: IMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 6-0078

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

RETURNING TO ARPT DUE HAZY WX.INVESTIGATION JURISDICTION COLOMBIAN GOVT.

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 6-0078, 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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