ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 328782
Date: | Thursday 21 September 1978 |
Time: | 12:43 |
Type: | Douglas DC-3-277C |
Owner/operator: | Argosy Air Lines |
Registration: | N407D |
MSN: | 2244 |
Year of manufacture: | 1940 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | N off Havana, Cuba -
Atlantic Ocean
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
Departure airport: | Fort Lauderdale International Airport, FL (FLL/KFLL) |
Destination airport: | Havana-José Martí International Airport (HAV/MUHA) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Argosy Air lines Flight 902 was operated by DC-3 N407D. The aircraft was to fly to Cuba to pick up 21 US citrus growers who were there on tour.
At 11:24 Flight 902 was cleared to taxi out from the Walkers Cay Jet Center to runway 09L for takeoff. At 11:29 they lifted off from Fort Lauderdale. Weather was fine as the DC-3 reached the cruising altitude of 6000 feet. At 12:25 the flight emerged on Havana's radar scopes, but the air traffic controller could not read any of the messages from the flight due to static. A high altitude plane relayed the messages to Havana and at 12:35 the messages became loud and clear. Eight minutes later the plane disappeared off the radar screens. The search for wreckage was called off at September 24.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Undetermined."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | |
Report number: | MIA78FA128 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
Bermuda Triangle Mystery web site NTSB
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Fort Lauderdale-Executive Airport, FL (FXE); October 1975
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