Piper PA-23 N14348

5 December 1973 · Vera Cruz, Mexico · No injuries

Summary

On 5 December 1973 at about 13:00 local time, a Piper PA-23 registered N14348, operated by Twin City Airw, was involved in an accident during unknown/not reported near Vera Cruz, Mexico. 4 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: 5 December 1973 at 13:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Vera Cruz, Mexico
Nearest airport: Jungle Strip
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-23
Registration: N14348
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Twin City Airw
Operating rule: Fixed Base Operator
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Unknown/Not Reported
Route: Vera Cruz, Mex → Belize, Br Honduras
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 6-0063

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

INVESTIGATN UNDR JURISDICTN OF GOVT OF MEXICO.

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 6-0063, 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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