ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 328616
| Date: | Friday 27 April 1979 |
| Time: | 01:16 |
| Type: |  Howard 350 |
| Owner/operator: | Triple D Transport Co. |
| Registration: | N544B |
| MSN: | 5267 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 27 km S off Guantanamo, Cuba [Caribbean Sea] -
 Atlantic Ocean
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The aircraft ditched in the Caribbean Sea after the pilots got lost. During last radio contact the crew reported that the navigational instruments were out.
The flight originated in Fort Lauderdale, FL. It's unknown if the flight made an en route stop before it went missing.
PROBABLE CAUSE:
pilot in command - became lost/disoriented
miscellaneous acts,conditions - fuel exhaustion
FACTOR:
miscellaneous acts,conditions - electrical failure
miscellaneous acts,conditions - aircraft came to rest in water
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
NTSB
The Lockheed Twins / P.J. Marsden
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