Champion 7GCAA N8355V

5 August 1981 · Ocean City, Maryland, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 5 August 1981 at about 11:30 local time, a Champion 7GCAA registered N8355V, operated by Ocean Air Inc, was involved in an accident during in flight near Ocean City, Maryland, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 5 August 1981 at 11:30
Classification: Accident
Location: Ocean City, Maryland, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Champion 7GCAA
Registration: N8355V
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Ocean Air Inc
Operating rule: Fixed Base Operator
Purpose of flight: Aerial Advertising
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: S → Local
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-1476

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.

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#3 EXHAUST VALVE FAILED.

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 3-1476, 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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