Douglas DC-3 N9BC

1 January 1975 · Ft Lauderdale, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. · No injuries

Summary

On 1 January 1975 at about 16:00 local time, a Douglas DC-3 registered N9BC, operated by Air Ohara Ltd, was involved in an accident during in flight near Ft Lauderdale, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.. 3 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 1 January 1975 at 16:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Ft Lauderdale, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Douglas DC-3
Registration: N9BC
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Air Ohara Ltd
Operating rule: Air Taxi Operator
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Freeport, Bahamas → S
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-0006

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
3	0	0	0	3

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 PROP ERRATIC, EXCEEDED 3000 RPM.PLT UN CTL, FEATHERED PROP.L ENG OVERHEATED LOST PWR.DITCHED OK.

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 3-0006, 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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