ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336483
Date: | Monday 17 January 1949 |
Time: | |
Type: | Avro 688 Tudor 4B |
Owner/operator: | British South American Airways - BSAA |
Registration: | G-AGRE |
MSN: | 1253 |
Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 20 / Occupants: 20 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | western Atlantic -
Atlantic Ocean
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Bermuda Air Terminal (BDA/TXKF) |
Destination airport: | Kingston Airport (KIN/MKJP) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Tudor G-AGRE (named "Star Ariel") departed Bermuda at 08:41 for the first leg to Kingston of a flight to Santiago. Last radio contact was at 09:42 when the flight informed Bermuda that they had passed though 30deg N and that they were changing to the Kingston frequency. Nothing more was heard from the flight; no wreckage was found. Weather at the time of the disappearance was good; wind was north at 36 knots, no clouds over FL100 (cruising altitude was FL180) and freezing level of FL140.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Through lack of evidence due to no wreckage having been found the cause of the accident is unknown."
Sources:
The Bermuda Triangle Mystery- Solved / L.D. Kusche
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