Piper PA-23 N5055Y

26 July 1980 · Guantanamo, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. · No injuries

Summary

On 26 July 1980, a Piper PA-23 registered N5055Y was involved in an accident during in flight near Guantanamo, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.. 2 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 26 July 1980
Classification: Accident
Location: Guantanamo, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-23
Registration: N5055Y
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Unknown/Not Reported
Purpose of flight: Unknown/Not Reported
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Kingston, Jamaica → Miami, Fl
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-3677

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
2	0	0	0	2

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

ACFT RPRTD ELECT FAILURE, FUEL EXH.NEITHER OCCUPANT HAD PLT CERTIFICATE.

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 3-3677, 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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27 Aug 1980	Piper PA-23 N44EM	East Tawas, Michigan, United States no coordinates	Mediclinic Inc	Fatal	4
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14 Jun 1980	Piper PA-23 N1442P	Somerville, New Jersey, United States no coordinates	Blue Sky AVN	No injuries	-
18 Oct 1980	Piper PA-23 N4859P	Houston, Texas, United States no coordinates	R B Williams	Minor injuries	-
23 Aug 1980	Piper PA-23 N5076Y	Little Rag Is, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	-	Fatal	1
16 Mar 1980	Piper PA-23 N143DP	Daytona Beach, Florida, United States no coordinates	Atlantic Airwa	No injuries	-

All 1,716 records for this type

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Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
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11 Jan 1980	Cessna 441 N441NC	Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	Nichols Constr	Fatal	2
12 Sep 1980	Lockheed L1011 N710DA	Nassau, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	Delta Air Lines, Inc.	Serious injuries	-
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All 136 records in Atlantic Ocean North Lat.