Piper PA-28 N4901J

24 December 1977 · Mayaguez, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. · Fatal

Summary

On 24 December 1977 at about 19:10 local time, a Piper PA-28 registered N4901J was involved in an accident during in flight near Mayaguez, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.. 3 people were on board and 3 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 24 December 1977 at 19:10
Classification: Accident
Location: Mayaguez, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-28
Registration: N4901J
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Port Au Prince, Haiti → San Juan, Pr
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: IMC
Light: Dusk
NTSB number: 3-4151

People

3 people died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
3	3	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 DECLARED MAYDAY, STATED HIS GYRO TUMBLED.DISAPPEARED FRM RADAR.ACFT NOT RCVRD, INJ 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 3-4151, 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.