- Date
- September 17, 1983, 19:03 local (23:03 UTC)
- Place
- Jones Beach, NY
- Injuries
- 4 fatal
- Damage
- No damage
- Phase of flight
- Enroute
- Aircraft
- N50807Cessna U-206FG
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Status
- Completed
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- Case key
- 35081
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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 acft ditched in the ocean about 4 miles se of Jones Beach, NY following eng power failure. The 4 occupants drowned. The plt was going from Washington,DC to westhampton Beach, NY, the acft was last refueled before its departure from westhampton Beach on 9/16 when it was topped off with 58 gallons of fuel. The next morning the flt departed for Washington, DC and arrived there at 1030. No fuel was requested or delivered to the acft. The flt departed Washington at 1737 for the 2 hour trip with 3 hours of fuel listed aboard. An enroute flt clearance routed the acft about 20 miles from the coast for ATC considerations. About 15 min later the pilot reported erratic fuel indications and requested direct routing to islip, NY.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N50807
- Reported as
- Cessna U-206FG
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- U20601949
- Airframe hours
- 1,700
- Engine
- Continental IO-520-F, 300 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- No damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Michael Velys, Jr.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Departed
- DCA · Washington, DC
- Destination
- FOK · Westhampton, NY
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- JFK · J. F. Kennedy
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
- 41
- Certificates
- Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine sea, Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Flight hours
- 800 total · 50 in this make and model · 30 in the last 90 days · 10 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Dusk
- Wind
- 240° at 6 knots
- Visibility
- 7 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 2,400 ft broken
- Temperature
- 70 °F, dew point 66 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.00 inHg
- Observed at
- JFK, 16 nm away