ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 328088
Date: | Tuesday 2 June 1981 |
Time: | 15:19 |
Type: | Britten-Norman BN-2A-7 Islander |
Owner/operator: | Pinders Charter Service |
Registration: | N28377 |
MSN: | 141 |
Year of manufacture: | 1970 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | off Nassau, Bahamas -
Atlantic Ocean
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger |
Departure airport: | Cape Eleuthera Airport (CEL/MYEC) |
Destination airport: | Nassau International Airport (NAS/MYNN) |
Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Both engines failed, so the pilot ditched the Islander in international waters off Nassau.
PROBABLE CAUSE:
pilot in command - inadequate preflight preparation and/or planning
pilot in command - mismanagement of fuel
miscellaneous acts,conditions - fuel exhaustion
FACTORs:
powerplant - powerplant-instruments: fuel quantity gauge
miscellaneous acts,conditions - erratic
miscellaneous acts,conditions - failure of two or more engines
miscellaneous acts,conditions - aircraft came to rest in water
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | NTSB |
Report number: | MIA81DA082 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
BAAA-ACRO
NTSB
World Directory of Airliner Crashes
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