Douglas DC-6A HH-220

17 September 1973 · Miami, Florida, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 17 September 1973 at about 05:09 local time, a Douglas DC-6A registered HH-220, operated by Other-Foreign Flag Carrier, was involved in an accident during in flight near Miami, Florida, United States. 3 people were on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was substantially damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 17 September 1973 at 05:09
Classification: Accident
Location: Miami, Florida, United States
Nearest airport: Miami Intl
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Douglas DC-6A
Registration: HH-220
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 4
Operator: Other-Foreign Flag Carrier
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: S → Port Au Prince, Haiti
Aircraft damage: Substantial
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: A-0006

People

Nobody was injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
3	0	0	0	3

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

MASTER ROD ASSEMBLY, P/N 1B080041-3761, EVIDENCE OF HI FRICTIONAL FORCES CONSISTANT WITH LUBE BKDWN.

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 A-0006, 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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