Piper PA-31 N483LC

16 December 1977 · Kingston, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. · Fatal

Summary

On 16 December 1977 at about 20:03 local time, a Piper PA-31 registered N483LC, operated by Growth Air Inc, was involved in an accident during in flight near Kingston, Atlantic Ocean North 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: 16 December 1977 at 20:03
Classification: Accident
Location: Kingston, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-31
Registration: N483LC
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Growth Air Inc
Operating rule: Contract Carrier
Purpose of flight: Charter-Passg-International
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Barranquilla, Colm → Tampa, Fl
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 3-4091

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 HE LOST BOTH ENGS & WAS DITCHING.ACFT NOT RECOVERED.DMG & INJURY INDEX PRESUMED.

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 3-4091, 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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All 136 records in Atlantic Ocean North Lat.