- Date
- October 20, 1982, 00:00 local (04:00 UTC)
- Place
- Missing Acft (Atlantic Ocean)
- Injuries
- 8 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Unknown
- Aircraft
- N777AAPiper PA-31
- Weather
- Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 20, 1983
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19821020054609A
- Case key
- 71725
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Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The flt departed anguilla at 0803 ast. At 0805 the plt radioed st. maarten & filed a VFR flt plan to st. thomas. The flt plan showed a direct route of flt at 4,500 ft MSL with a time enroute of 45 min. The flt failed to arrive at the destination. Search efforts were suspended on 10/23/82 with negative results. Plts flying in the area on the accident date reported that at 0920 there was a line of thunderstorms extending nw from st. maarten to the antigua area. The line of thunderstorms had a base as low as 1,000 ft with continuous heavy rain below. The Acft damage & injuries are presumed.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N777AA
- Reported as
- Piper PA-31
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 31-668
- Airframe hours
- 4,665
- Engine
- Lycoming TIO-540, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Fire
- Unknown
- Flight
- Part 135
- Operator
- Carib Air Service, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Carib Air Service, Inc.
- Departed
- Anguilla, B.V.I
- Destination
- St. Thomas, U.S
- Flight plan
- VFR
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.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 33
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 6,500 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Day
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.