ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 14514
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| Date: | Thursday 27 April 1978 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Ted Smith Aerostar 601 |
| Owner/operator: | Private |
| Registration: | N555BU |
| MSN: | 61-0001 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1968 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Gulf of Mexico, between Pompano Beach, and Panama City, Florida -
 United States of America
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| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | Pompano Beach, FL |
| Panama City, FL | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Written off (destroyed) April 27 1978 when went missing on a private flight over the Gulf of Mexico, between Pompano Beach, and Panama City, Florida: aircraft damage & injury index presumed, as no trace of the aircraft or the pilot (the sole person on board) was ever found, nor was anything ever recovered.
The NTSB report notes that the aircraft had known deficienices with instrumentation, and in particular with the altimeter ("PILOT IN COMMAND - ATTEMPTED OPERATION W/KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN EQUIPMENT INSTRUMENTS/ EQUIPMENT AND ACCESSORIES - FLIGHT AND NAVIGATION INSTRUMENTS: ALTIMETERS). This implies that the aircraft may have flown into the sea en route, due to a faulty altimeter giving a false reading of the aircraft's altitude
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
1. NTSB Identification: MIA78DA074 at https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief.aspx?ev_id=42143&key=0&queryId=8cac546a-7ef3-4935-89c0-e14879e79bac&pgno=1&pgsize=200
2. FAA; http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?omni=Home-N-Number&nNumberTxt=555BU
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 25-Feb-2008 12:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 12-Jul-2016 16:36 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
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