- Date
- December 21, 1979
- Place
- Missing Aircraft · MISSING AIRCRAFT, UN
- Injuries
- 4 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N1435PPiper PA-23
- Status
- Completed · report March 7, 1980
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- FAA report
- 19791221043919A
- Case key
- 132649
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-3309 79/12/21 MISSING AIRCRAFT PIPER PA-23 CR- 1 0 0 NONCOMMERCIAL PRIVATE, AGE 31, 310 TIME - UNK/NR N1435P PX- 3 0 0 PLEASURE/PERSONAL TRANSP TOTAL HOURS, UNK/NR IN DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 TYPE, NOT INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION AGUADILLA,PR SOUTH CAICOS ISLAND TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION MISSING AIRCRAFT,NOT RECOVERED UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED REMARKS- INJURY AND ACFT DAMAGE INDEXES ARE PRESUMED.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1435P
- Reported as
- Piper PA-23
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
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FAA reports on this event · 1
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Other investigations on N1435P · 1
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