Aero Comdr 500 N3836C

17 May 1979 · Treasure Cay, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. · No injuries

Summary

On 17 May 1979 at about 17:15 local time, a Aero Comdr 500 registered N3836C, operated by Palm Beach AVI, was involved in an accident during the takeoff phase of flight near Treasure Cay, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 17 May 1979 at 17:15
Classification: Accident
Location: Treasure Cay, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.
Nearest airport: Treasure Cay
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Aero Comdr 500
Registration: N3836C
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Palm Beach AVI
Operating rule: Air Taxi Operator
Purpose of flight: Air Taxi-Passenger Operations
Phase of flight: Takeoff
Route: Treasure Cay, Bahamas → Andros Town, Bahamas
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-2839

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.

Read the full NTSB narrative

HIT TREES NEAR RWY AFTR ENG FAILURE.UN MAINTAIN ALTITUDE, DITCHED IN INTL WATERS.

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 3-2839, 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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Atlantic Ocean North Lat. 136 Aero Comdr 500 133 1979 4,210

Other Aero Comdr 500 accidents

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
17 Oct 1979	Aero Comdr 500 N4111P	San Francisco, California, United States no coordinates	Yosemite Air	No injuries	-
4 Oct 1979	Aero Comdr 500 N3815C	Missing Aircraft, Unknown/Not Reported no coordinates	Iron Bird	Fatal	1
27 Feb 1979	Aero Comdr 500B N6156X	Annapolis, California, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
23 Sep 1978	Aero Comdr 500 N6244B	Laredo, Texas, United States no coordinates	-	Fatal	7
4 Apr 1978	Aero Comdr 500 N2ME	Miami, Florida, United States no coordinates	Air Miami Inc	No injuries	-
5 Jan 1978	Aero Comdr 500B N6308U	Miles City, Montana, United States no coordinates	Combs Airways,	Fatal	1

All 133 records for this type

Other accidents in this area

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
24 Sep 1979	Cessna 210 N8279M	Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	Centaur AVN	No injuries	-
7 Jul 1979	Lockheed PV-1 N721N	Aruba, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
6 May 1979	Cessna 185 N561MC	Jamaica, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
27 Apr 1979	Lockheed PV-1 N544B	Guamtanamo, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	-	Fatal	2
19 Jul 1979	Piper PA-18 N811H	Martha's Vnyrd, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
23 Aug 1980	Piper PA-23 N5076Y	Little Rag Is, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	-	Fatal	1

All 136 records in Atlantic Ocean North Lat.