Beechcraft B90 N480K

27 December 1971 · No.atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. · No injuries

Summary

On 27 December 1971 at about 15:30 local time, a Beechcraft B90 registered N480K, operated by Universal Avia, was involved in an accident during in flight near No.atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 27 December 1971 at 15:30
Classification: Accident
Location: No.atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Beechcraft B90
Registration: N480K
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Universal Avia
Operating rule: Corporate/Executive
Purpose of flight: Corporate/Executive
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Little Whale Cay, Bah → Freeport, Bah
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-3732

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
1	0	0	0	1

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

PLT STATED FUEL TOTALIZER SHOWED 387LBS, FUEL GAUGES SHOWED ZERO.DITCHED 18NM S OF FREEPORT, SANK.

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 3-3732, 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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Atlantic Ocean North Lat. 136 Universal Avia 15 Beechcraft B90 38 1971 4,882

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