- Date
- April 16, 2021, 21:42 local (Apr 17, 2021, 01:42 UTC)
- Place
- South Bimini, Bahamas · In the water off end of Runway 10
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N827RDPiper PA-31-350
- Defining event
- Initial climb: Loss of control in flight
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Investigation class
- Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office
- General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency
- Other
- Parties
- Piper Aircraft, AAIA, FAA / IFO, Lycoming Aircraft Engines
- FAA report
- 20210416006439A
- Case key
- 102932
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N827RD
- Reported as
- Piper PA-31-350
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31-7652094
- Built
- 1976
- Airframe hours
- 7,113
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Goyo Air LLC.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · April 28, 2020 · 33.8 hours before
- Departed
- MYBS · South Bimini, OF
- Destination
- OPF · Miami, FL
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- MYBS · South Bimini Airport, runway 10, 5,391 × 100 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Stall warning system, ADS-B, Auto-pilot, Electronic primary flight display
N827RDRegistered now · Piper PA-31-350Airframe modelPiper PA-31-350Engine modelLycoming 0-540 series
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 220° at 7 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 20,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.89 inHg
- Observed at
- KFLL, 53 nm away
- METAR
- KFLL 170153Z 22007KT 10SM BKN200 27/19 A2989 RMK AO2 SLP119 T02670194
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.