Boeing 737 N61AF

6 October 1980 · Prt Au Prnc, Other-Foreign Countries · No injuries

Summary

On 6 October 1980 at about 19:31 local time, a Boeing 737 registered N61AF, operated by Air Florida, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Prt Au Prnc, Other-Foreign Countries. 79 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 6 October 1980 at 19:31
Classification: Accident
Location: Prt Au Prnc, Other-Foreign Countries
Nearest airport: Francois Duvalier
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Boeing 737
Registration: N61AF
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Air Florida
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Z → Z
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: IMC
Light: Unknown/Not Reported
NTSB number: 1-0018

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
79	0	0	0	79

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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INVESTIGATION UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF HAITI.

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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 1-0018, 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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