- Date
- March 20, 1971
- Place
- Missing Aircraft · MISSING AIRCRAFT, UN
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N30844Cessna 177B
- Status
- Completed · report November 2, 1971
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 160278
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NTSB brief
NTSB’s brief of the accident, as it was printed: the coded facts, with the probable cause and factors.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FILE DATE LOCATION AIRCRAFT DATA INJURIES FLIGHT PILOT DATA F S M/N PURPOSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-0304 71/3/20 MISSING AIRCRAFT CESSNA 177B CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 38, UNK/NR TIME - 1518 N30844 PX- 0 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, UNK/NR IN DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION MIAMI,FLA ANDROS ISLD,BAHAMAS TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION MISSING AIRCRAFT,NOT RECOVERED UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED REMARKS- 3 ACFT HEARD PLT DECLARE MAYDAY,WAS DITCHING.NO POS REPT RECD.ACFT DMG AND INJURY INDEX PRESUMED.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N30844
- Reported as
- Cessna 177B
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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