Semco N2079

21 September 1970 · Missing Aircraft, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. · Fatal

Summary

On 21 September 1970 at about 18:00 local time, a Semco registered N2079 was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Missing Aircraft, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.. 3 people were on board and 3 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 21 September 1970 at 18:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Missing Aircraft, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Semco
Registration: N2079
Category: Balloon
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Experimentation
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: East Hampton, Ny → France
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-1469

People

3 people died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
3	3	0	0	0

Probable cause

The NTSB has not published a probable cause for this record. No probable cause statement is present in the source data.

Nothing about the cause is stated here that is not in the source record.

Read the full NTSB narrative

EXPERIMENTAL CLASS BALLOON ATMTNG TRANSATLANTIC RCRD.PLT RADIOED WAS DITCHING IN N ATLANTIC.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.

No coordinates. The source record does not contain a latitude and longitude, so this accident cannot be shown on the map. Everything else about it is on this page.

Source

NTSB record 3-1469, from the public aviation accident database.

Records from before 1982 are not in the NTSB's online investigation search. The full dataset can be downloaded from data.ntsb.gov/avdata.

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