Lockheed PV-1 N8GW

11 April 1979 · Belle Glade, Florida, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 11 April 1979 at about 05:00 local time, a Lockheed PV-1 registered N8GW, operated by World Photo, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Belle Glade, Florida, United States. 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: 11 April 1979 at 05:00
Classification: Accident
Location: Belle Glade, Florida, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Lockheed PV-1
Registration: N8GW
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: World Photo
Operating rule: Other
Purpose of flight: Other
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Z → S
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 3-0553

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

4000LBS OF MARIJUANA FOUND ABOARD.INJURY INDEX PRESUMED.

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 3-0553, 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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Other Lockheed PV-1 accidents

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
26 May 1979	Lockheed PV-1 N1514S	Dania, Florida, United States no coordinates	-	Fatal	2
7 Jul 1979	Lockheed PV-1 N721N	Aruba, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	-	No injuries	-
27 Apr 1979	Lockheed PV-1 N544B	Guamtanamo, Atlantic Ocean North Lat. no coordinates	-	Fatal	2
9 Dec 1976	Lockheed PV-1 N80BD	Yosemite, California, United States no coordinates	-	Fatal	2
1 Feb 1975	Lockheed PV-1 N234YU	Egg Harbor, New Jersey, United States no coordinates	Ebco MFG Co	Fatal	2
1 Apr 1975	Lockheed PV-1 N730EG	Culiacan, Mexico no coordinates	-	Fatal	2

All 18 records for this type

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