- Date
- May 9, 1991, 16:20 local (20:20 UTC)
- Place
- Gulf Of Mexico
- Injuries
- 1 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N6567ZCessna TU-206G
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 14, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19910509015259A
- Case key
- 32865
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Probable cause
An in flight collision with the water for undetermined reasons.
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 airplane departed on a positioning flight and never arrived at its destination. A search was conducted and the airplane was found at the bottom of the Gulf Of Mexico about 3 weeks later. The pilot was not located. No records of the pilot or the airplane were located.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6567Z
- Reported as
- Cessna TU-206G
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 20606321
- Engine
- Continental TSIO-520-M, 310 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Positioning · Part 91
- Operator
- Island Flying Service
- Registered owner
- Bananaquit Tours
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Unknown · January 2, 2000
- Departed
- EYW · Key West, FL
- Destination
- DTF · Dry Tortugas, FL
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
- 47
- Certificate
- Airline transport
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 8,000 total
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 110° at 11 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 86 °F, dew point 61 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- EYW, 11 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.