De Havilland DHC-6 N23BC

5 November 1979 · Tau, Samoa · Serious injuries

Summary

On 5 November 1979 at about 17:03 local time, a De Havilland DHC-6 registered N23BC, operated by South Pacific, was involved in an accident during the landing phase of flight near Tau, Samoa. 18 people were on board and one was seriously injured, 17 had minor injuries. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

The record

Date: 5 November 1979 at 17:03
Classification: Accident
Location: Tau, Samoa
Nearest airport: Tau
Coordinates: Not recorded
Aircraft: De Havilland DHC-6
Registration: N23BC
Category: Fixed-Wing
Engines: 2
Operator: South Pacific
Operating rule: Air Taxi Operator
Purpose of flight: Air Taxi-Passenger Operations
Phase of flight: Landing
Route: Pago Pago, Amer Samoa → S
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Weather: VMC
Light: Daylight
NTSB number: 3-3088

People

1 person was seriously injured.

On board	Died	Serious	Minor	Uninjured
18	0	1	17	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.

Read the full NTSB narrative

COPILOT DID NOT CALL OUT LOW AIRSPEED ON FINAL.

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 3-3088, 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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Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
17 Jun 1979	De Havilland DHC-6 N383EX	Hyannis, Massachusetts, United States no coordinates	Air New England	Fatal	1
28 Jan 1979	De Havilland DHC-6 N851TB	Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska, United States no coordinates	Cape Smythe AI	No injuries	-
30 May 1979	De Havilland DHC-6 N68DE	Rockland, Maine, United States no coordinates	Downeast Airli	Fatal	17
27 Feb 1979	De Havilland DHC-6 N24RM	Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States no coordinates	Rocky Mountain	Minor injuries	-
2 Dec 1978	De Havilland DHC-6 N59AN	Watertown, New York, United States no coordinates	E. A. Deeds	Minor injuries	-
21 Sep 1980	De Havilland DHC-6 N46RA	Wichita Falls, Texas, United States no coordinates	Rio Airlines	No injuries	-

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Other accidents in this area

Date	Aircraft	Location	Operator	Outcome	Died
19 Dec 1978	Cessna A188B N30581	PAG0 PAG0, Samoa no coordinates	Transair Inc.	No injuries	-
27 Apr 1978	Cessna 402 N35P	Upola, Samoa no coordinates	South Pacific	Fatal	10
22 Nov 1981	Nitsubishi MU-2B N109TW	Pago Pago, Samoa no coordinates	Dick Sawyer	Fatal	1
30 Jan 1974	Boeing 707 N454PA	Pago Pago, Samoa no coordinates	Pan American World Airways, Inc.	Fatal	96
5 Jan 1970	De Havilland DHC-6 N93985	Tau Island, Samoa no coordinates	Air Capitol In	No injuries	-

All 6 records in Samoa