Piper PA-23 N19273

31 January 1972 · St.maarten, Other-Foreign Countries · No injuries

Summary

On 31 January 1972 at about 15:55 local time, a Piper PA-23 registered N19273, operated by Valley Air SER, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near St.maarten, Other-Foreign Countries. 6 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 31 January 1972 at 15:55
Classification: Accident
Location: St.maarten, Other-Foreign Countries
Nearest airport: Lesperance
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-23
Registration: N19273
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Valley Air SER
Operating rule: Air Taxi Operator
Purpose of flight: Air Taxi-Passenger Operations
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Anguilla, West Indies → S
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 6-0022

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
6	0	0	0	6

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

INVEST UNDER JURISDICTION OF GOVT OF NETHERLAND ANTILLES.

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 6-0022, 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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