Cessna 150 N8398J

16 July 1973 · N Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. · No injuries

Summary

On 16 July 1973 at about 17:10 local time, a Cessna 150 registered N8398J was involved in an accident during in flight near N 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: 16 July 1973 at 17:10
Classification: Accident
Location: N Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean North Lat.
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Cessna 150
Registration: N8398J
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Not recorded
Operating rule: Private Owner
Purpose of flight: Fish Spotting
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Fall River Mass → Local
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-1969

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 REPORTED ENG LOST PWR UN MAINTAIN ALT, FISH SPOTTING.

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 3-1969, 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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2 Jan 1973	Cessna 150J N61178	No.olmstead, Ohio, United States no coordinates	Ortner Air SER	No injuries	-
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All 10,427 records for this type

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Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
6 Jan 1973	Aero Comdr S-2R N8953Q	Atlantic O.north, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	Euramericair, I	Fatal	1
6 May 1973	Lockheed L18 N620S	Chub Cay, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	Karol Investme	Fatal	2
11 Jun 1973	Piper PA-23 N5218Y	Staniel Cay, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	-	Fatal	1
18 Jun 1973	Cessna 172 N5366R	Hope Bay, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	-	Fatal	-
27 Aug 1973	Boeing 707 N18703	No.atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	Trans World Airlines, Inc.	Serious injuries	-
4 Sep 1973	Boeing 747 N9676	N.atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	American Airlines, Inc.	Serious injuries	-

All 136 records in Atlantic Ocean North Lat.