- Date
- April 5, 1971
- Place
- East End, U.S. Virgin Islands · EAST END,BVI, U.S. Virgin Islands
- Injuries
- 1 serious, 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N57372Douglas DC-3A
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1971
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 161344
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6-0005 71/4/5 EAST END,BVI DOUGLAS DC-3A CR- 0 0 2 COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL, AGE 21, 4425 TIME - 0951 N57372 PX- 0 1 0 CTR CARGO-I TOTAL HOURS, 1510 IN DAMAGE-SUBSTANTIAL OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - BEEF ISLAND DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION SAN JUAN,PR EAST END,BVI TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION UNDERSHOOT LANDING: FINAL APPROACH GEAR COLLAPSED LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN REMARKS- INVEST UNDER JURISDICTION OF GOVT OF BVI.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N57372
- Reported as
- Douglas DC-3A
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Airport
- Beef Island
N57372Registration cancelled Aug 27, 2012 · Douglas DC3C-S1C3GAirframe modelDouglas DC3C-S1C3GEngine modelPratt & Whitney R-1830 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.