Piper PA-34 N55951

18 May 1976 · Petersburg, Alaska, United States · Fatal

Summary

On 18 May 1976 at about 08:56 local time, a Piper PA-34 registered N55951, operated by LAB Flying SER, was involved in an accident during in flight near Petersburg, Alaska, United States. 6 people were on board and 6 died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 18 May 1976 at 08:56
Classification: Accident
Location: Petersburg, Alaska, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-34
Registration: N55951
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: LAB Flying SER
Operating rule: Air Taxi Operator
Purpose of flight: Air Taxi-Passenger Operations
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Haines, Ak → Wrangell, Ak
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: IMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-1814

People

6 people died.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
6	6	0	0	0

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.

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LOSS OF CTL FOR UNDET REASON.

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 3-1814, 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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