Cessna 337A N5310S

23 July 1971 · Barbados, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. · Fatal

Summary

On 23 July 1971 at about 15:31 local time, a Cessna 337A registered N5310S, operated by Horizon Hunter, was involved in an accident during in flight near Barbados, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.. 4 people were on board and 4 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 23 July 1971 at 15:31
Classification: Accident
Location: Barbados, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Cessna 337A
Registration: N5310S
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Horizon Hunter
Operating rule: Flying Club
Purpose of flight: Pleasure
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Curacao, Antilles → Barbados, B.w.i.
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-0483

People

4 people died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
4	4	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

CALLED BARBADOS, FUEL TANKS EMPTY, EST PSN 40MI WEST, DITCHING.NO TRACE OF ACFT.DMG, INJURY PRESUMED.

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 3-0483, 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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Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
24 Aug 1971	Cessna 337D N337LF	Chester, Connecticut, United States no coordinates	Corporate Air	No injuries	-
10 Nov 1971	Cessna 337 N2113X	Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
28 Mar 1971	Cessna 337B N5481S	Spring, Texas, United States no coordinates	-	Fatal	2
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8 Dec 1971	Cessna 337A N6357F	McIntosh, Florida, United States no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
16 May 1971	Cessna 337A N5388S	Jackson, Mississippi, United States no coordinates	JIM Ratliff AI	Fatal	2

All 444 records for this type

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Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
8 May 1971	Boeing 707 N418PA	No.atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	Pan American World Airways, Inc.	No injuries	-
21 Aug 1971	Douglas DC-8 N8034U	No.atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	United Air Lines, Inc.	No injuries	-
2 Oct 1971	Douglas DC-3 N1981W	St Maarten, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
14 Apr 1971	Beechcraft 95 N664T	Nassau, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	Overseas Suppl	No injuries	-
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All 136 records in Atlantic Ocean North Lat.