- Date
- November 28, 1988, 17:46 local (22:46 UTC)
- Place
- Atlantic Ocean (Atlantic Ocean)
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N7926NPiper PA-28-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed · report December 29, 1989
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19881128070049A
- Case key
- 32368
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Analysis
The student pilot contacted ifss at miami, FL and filed an intl flight plan to the Bahamas. He did not request a weather briefing and none was given. The pilot later contacted controllers and stated that he was in instrument meteorological conditions and requested assistance. Controllers attempted to locate him on radar but by the time they found him and attempted to assist him he disappeared from radar over the Atlantic Ocean and no further contacts were made. The wx observation was recorded at 1750 EST at the west palm beach airport. No record of any flight time was located but personnel at the lantana airport stated that they believed that the students instructor pilot, a bahamian citizen, had endorsed the pilots student certificate for flights to and from west end, Bahamas.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N7926N
- Reported as
- Piper PA-28-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 285337
- Engine
- Lycoming IO-360, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Adderley, Edward
- Registered owner
- Edward Adderley
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- LNA · Lantana, FL
- Destination
- MYGW · W End, Bahamas, OF
- Flight plan
- VFR
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Flight crew
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- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 30
- Certificate
- Student
- Medical
- Class 3, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Left
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 340° at 3 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 73 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- PBI, 47 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
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Other investigations on N7926N · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.