Date: | Wednesday 12 September 1979 |
Time: | 06:15 |
Type: | Curtiss C-46A-60-CK Commando |
Owner/operator: | Rich International Airways |
Registration: | N7768B |
MSN: | 467 |
Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 1,6 km W off South Caicos International Airport (XSC) -
Turks and Caicos Islands
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | Grand Turk Island Airport (GDT/MBJT) |
Destination airport: | South Caicos International Airport (XSC/MBSC) |
Narrative:Ditched after engine failure just short of the South Caicos runway 11.
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | |
Report number: | MIA79RA121 |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
NTSB
Location
Images:
photo (c) Austin John Brown LBIPP/www.aviationpictures.com; 1,6 km off South Caicos International Airport (XSC); March 1980
photo (c) Austin John Brown LBIPP/www.aviationpictures.com; 1,6 km off South Caicos International Airport (XSC); March 1980
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Miami International Airport, FL (MIA); July 1974
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