Piper PA-23 N54857

7 November 1979 · Stamford, Connecticut, United States · No injuries

Summary

On 7 November 1979 at about 22:45 local time, a Piper PA-23 registered N54857, operated by Corporate Air, was involved in an accident during in flight near Stamford, Connecticut, United States. One person was on board and nobody was injured. The aircraft was slightly damaged. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 7 November 1979 at 22:45
Classification: Accident
Location: Stamford, Connecticut, United States
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: Piper PA-23
Registration: N54857
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: Corporate Air
Operating rule: Air Taxi Operator
Purpose of flight: Air Taxi-Cargo Operations
Phase of flight: In Flight
Route: Hartford, Ct → Queens, Ny
Aircraft damage: Minor
Weather: VMC
Light: Night (Dark)
NTSB number: 3-3621

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 WAS UNAWARE THAT PLT OF OTHER ACFT, PA-31, WASCLOSING IN FORMATION FM REAR.

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 3-3621, 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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