Piper PA-23 N5076Y

23 August 1980 · Little Rag Is, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. · Fatal

Summary

On 23 August 1980 at about 22:30 local time, a Piper PA-23 registered N5076Y was involved in an accident during unknown/not reported near Little Rag Is, 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: 23 August 1980 at 22:30
Classification: Accident
Location: Little Rag Is, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-23
Registration: N5076Y
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Other
Phase of flight: Unknown/Not Reported
Route: Montego Bay, Jamacia → Great Inagua, Bahamas
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 3-2449

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

CRASHED IN INTERNATIONAL WATERS.ACFT NOT RECOVERED.INJURY INDEX PRESUMED.DRUGS REPORTED ONBOARD.

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 3-2449, 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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