ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 227742
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Date: | Friday 19 May 1995 |
Time: | |
Type: | Sikorsky S-61N |
Owner/operator: | Helinamib/Court |
Registration: | ZS-RDY |
MSN: | 61742 |
Year of manufacture: | 1975 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: 6 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | South Atlantic, off the Skeleton Coast, Namibia -
Namibia
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:While flying out to a ship in the South Atlantic the a/c suffered an engine failure. After an air-turnback the speed decayed and so the pilot made a precautionary sea landing 27 miles from the coast. Following a water-taxi to the coast the a/c was beached.
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