- Date
- September 21, 1970
- Place
- Missing Aircraft (Atlantic Ocean) · MISSING AIRCRAFT, AO
- Injuries
- 3 fatal
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N2079Semco
- Status
- Completed · report December 23, 1970
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 158471
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-1469 70/9/21 MISSING AIRCRAFT SEMCO CR- 3 0 0 MISCELLANEOUS CERTIFICATE UNKNOWN, AGE TIME - 1800 N2079 PX- 0 0 0 EXPERIMENTATION UNK/NR, UNK/NR TOTAL DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 HOURS, UNK/NR IN TYPE, UNK/NR INSTRUMENT RATED. DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION EAST HAMPTON,NY FRANCE TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION DITCHING LANDING: LEVEL OFF/TOUCHDOWN PROBABLE CAUSE(S) MISCELLANEOUS - UNDETERMINED EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES - FORCED LANDING OFF AIRPORT ON WATER REMARKS- EXPERIMENTAL CLASS BALLOON ATMTNG TRANSATLANTIC RCRD.PLT RADIOED WAS DITCHING IN N ATLANTIC.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N2079
- Reported as
- Semco
- Category
- Balloon
- Engine
- none
- Damage
- Destroyed
N2079Registration cancelled Jan 14, 1972 · Semco Balloon GAS ATL-1Airframe modelSemco Balloon GAS ATL-1
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