Piper PA-34-200 N4437T

Summary

On 9 October 1983 at about 05:00 local time, a Piper PA-34-200 registered N4437T was involved in an accident near Gulf of Mexico. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

9 October 1983 at 05:00

Classification

Accident

Location

Gulf of Mexico

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

Piper PA-34-200

Registration

N4437T

Category

Airplane

Engines

2

Operator

Not recorded

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Harlingen → Houston

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

IMC

Light

Day

NTSB number

FTW84LAMS1

1 person died.

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

THE ACFT DISAPPEARED ON A FLT OVER A PART OF THE GULF OF MEXICO SOUTH OF CORPUS CHRISTI IN AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY. THE STORMS WERE DENSELY PACKED AND IT WAS CONSIDERED UNLIKELY THAT VFR FLT COULD BE CONDUCTED IN THE AREA. THEACCIDENT ACFT WAS IN RADIO CONTACT WITH A FORMER INSTRUCTOR AND BROTHER-IN-LAW WHO WAS FLYING TO CORPUS CHRISTI IN A C-172. THE C-172 LANDED AT CORPUS DUE TO THE T-STORMS AND HAD LOST CONTACT WITH N4437T BEFORE LANDING. A PART OF A WING IDENTIFIED AS HAVING COME FROM N4437T WAS PICKED UP BY A SHRIMP BOAT ABOUT 3 WEEKS AFTER THE ACFT WAS MISSING. THE SEARCH BY THE CAP AND COAST GUARD FOUND NOTHING AND THE SEARCH WAS ENDED.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.