Cessna 185F N4876Q

3 December 1978 · Pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes · No injuries

Summary

On 3 December 1978 at about 08:30 local time, a Cessna 185F registered N4876Q, operated by Southern Cross, was involved in an accident during in flight near Pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes. 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: 3 December 1978 at 08:30
Classification: Accident
Location: Pacific Ocean, Pacific Ocean North Latitudes
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Cessna 185F
Registration: N4876Q
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 1
Operator: Southern Cross
Operating rule: Fixed Base Operator
Purpose of flight: Ferry
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Santa Barbara, Ca → Honolulu, Hi
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-3534

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

ACFT DITCHED 200 MILES EAST HONOLULU, HI. AUX FUEL PUMP UNABLE TO PRVD SUFF FUEL FM FRRY SYSTEM.

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 3-3534, 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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