- Date
- September 11, 1972
- Place
- Clarendon, Jamaica · CLARENDON, Jamaica
- Injuries
- 1 fatal, 1 serious, 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- N1040ELockheed 18
- Status
- Completed · report April 8, 1975
- Report
- Brief approved by the director
- Case key
- 168719
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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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6-0100 72/9/11 CLARENDON,JAMAICA LOCKHEED 18 CR- 0 1 0 MISCELLANEOUS CERTIFICATE UNKNOWN, AGE TIME - 0130 N1040E PX- 1 0 1 UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED UNK/NR, UNK/NR TOTAL DAMAGE-DESTROYED OT- 0 0 0 HOURS, UNK/NR IN TYPE, UNK/NR INSTRUMENT RATED. NAME OF AIRPORT - VERNAMFIELD DEPARTURE POINT INTENDED DESTINATION CLARENDON,JAMAICA UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED TYPE OF ACCIDENT PHASE OF OPERATION COLLISION WITH GROUND/WATER: UNCONTROLLED TAKEOFF: INITIAL CLIMB PROBABLE CAUSE(S) PILOT IN COMMAND - PREMATURE LIFT-OFF FIRE AFTER IMPACT REMARKS- TKOF FM UNLIGHTED RWY AT NITE.YAWED L INTO TREES.VAST AMT GANJA ONBD.RPTD BY GOVT OF JAMAICA.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N1040E
- Reported as
- Lockheed 18
- Category
- Airplane
- Engine
- reciprocating
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Airport
- Vernamfield
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