Cessna 401B N2ST

12 August 1980 · Tewksbury, Massachusetts, United States · Fatal

Summary

On 12 August 1980 at about 09:37 local time, a Cessna 401B registered N2ST, operated by Meriden Airway, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Tewksbury, Massachusetts, United States. 2 people were on board and 2 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 12 August 1980 at 09:37
Classification: Accident
Location: Tewksbury, Massachusetts, United States
Nearest airport: Tew-Mac
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Cessna 401B
Registration: N2ST
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Meriden Airway
Operating rule: Air Taxi Operator
Purpose of flight: Air Taxi-Passenger Operations
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Meriden, Ct → S
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: IMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-2731

People

2 people died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
2	2	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

244DEG TRACK INBOUND FRM VOR, PROCEDURE CALLS FOR224DEG.HIT RADIO TWR.

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 3-2731, 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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