Douglas DC-9 N967PR

24 August 1971 · Barbados, Other-Foreign Countries · No injuries

Summary

On 24 August 1971 at about 20:35 local time, a Douglas DC-9 registered N967PR, operated by Caribbean-Atlantic Airlines, Inc., was involved in an incident during the takeoff phase of flight near Barbados, Other-Foreign Countries. 96 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was not damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 24 August 1971 at 20:35
Classification: Incident
Location: Barbados, Other-Foreign Countries
Nearest airport: Seawell Intl
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Douglas DC-9
Registration: N967PR
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Caribbean-Atlantic Airlines, Inc.
Phase of flight: Takeoff
Route: S → Port of Spain, Trinid
Aircraft damage: None
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 4-0042

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
96	0	0	0	96

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

R SPOILER CABLE FAILED, CAUSED SPOILER TO DEPLOY WITH PARTIAL LOSS OF CTL.

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 4-0042, 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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