Douglas DC-3 N25670

18 March 1977 · Polk City, Florida, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 18 March 1977 at about 22:00 local time, a Douglas DC-3 registered N25670 was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Polk City, Florida, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 18 March 1977 at 22:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Polk City, Florida, United States
Nearest airport: Private Strip
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Douglas DC-3
Registration: N25670
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Unknown/Not Reported
Purpose of flight: Unknown/Not Reported
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Z → Z
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 3-2402

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
1	0	0	0	1

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.

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TRANSPORTING MARIJUANA.

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 3-2402, 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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