Cessna 182H N8460S

Summary

On 28 March 1998 at about 00:20 local time, a Cessna 182H registered N8460S, operated by Karvin Air, was involved in an accident near Missing. One person was on board and one died. The aircraft was destroyed. No probable cause statement is available for this record.

Date

28 March 1998 at 00:20

Classification

Accident

Location

Missing

Coordinates

Not recorded

Aircraft

Cessna 182H

Registration

N8460S

Category

Airplane

Engines

1

Operator

Karvin Air

Operating rule

Part 91: General Aviation

Purpose of flight

Personal

Phase of flight

Not recorded

Route

Kingston → Georgetown

Aircraft damage

Destroyed

Weather

Unk

Light

Night/Dark

NTSB number

MIA98FAMS2

1 person died.

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

The airplane was equipped with 2 VOR and 1 ADF receivers; no GPS receiver was installed. The pilot was using an incorrect route segment for the flight. The pilot advised the ARTCC controller that only 1 VOR receiver was operable, the ADF was inoperative, and he was unable to receive the VOR signal from Great Exuma, where he planned to refuel. The flight continued then the pilot advised the controller that the engine was running rough and the flight descended to 4,000 feet, where radio contact was lost. A 4-day search for the airplane was performed with negative results. The pilot had never flown in the Bahamas or Caribbean before while acting as pilot-in-command and had never flown a Cessna 182 before. The destination airport does not have an instrument approach and landing at night is not permitted. The calculated arrival time was after the end of civil twilight at the destination airport. The VOR located on Great Exuma Island, Bahamas, maintained by the Airway Facilities Section of the Department of Civil Aviation, Bahamas, was out of service on the day of the flight and had been out of service since March 1996; no NOTAM was in effect on the day of the flight, and this information was not published.

Quoted verbatim from the NTSB record.