Piper PA-23 N5002Y

10 January 1977 · Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean South Lat. · Fatal

Summary

On 10 January 1977 at about 19:32 local time, a Piper PA-23 registered N5002Y was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean South Lat.. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 10 January 1977 at 19:32
Classification: Accident
Location: Caribbean Sea, Atlantic Ocean South Lat.
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-23
Registration: N5002Y
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Miami, Fl → San Juan, Pr
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Light: Dusk
NTSB number: 3-0158

People

1 person died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
1	1	0	0	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

PLT REPORTED P&N UNK, NEARING FUEL EXHAUSTION, DITCHING.ACFT NOT RCVRD.PLT NOT MULTI-ENG RATED.

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 3-0158, 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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28 Jan 1977	Piper PA-23 N62719	Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, United States no coordinates	Piper Aircraft	No injuries	-
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13 Apr 1977	Piper PA-23 N4483P	Weathersfield, Connecticut, United States no coordinates	-	Fatal	1

All 1,716 records for this type

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