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MIA78DA115

1978-08-07 · NGREAT INAGUA, Atlantic Ocean, United States · Fatal · 1 aircraft · Status: Completed

N669SA has since been reassigned. It is now registered to a different aircraft (AEROPILOT S R O L 600, built 2023), which was not involved in this event.

Aircraft involved

Historical record (pre-1982 coded fields)

Aircraft
AERO COMDR 680F · N669SA
Damage
Destroyed
Craft type
Airplane
Classification
Accident
Light condition
Dawn
Weather
VMC
Phase of flight
D1
Operator type
D
Kind of flying
B3

Weather at impact

Sky
SCATTERED-ABOVE 1000 FEET

Aircraft history

Serial number
00001667-131

Pilot

Certificate
Commercial
Total hours
1,800
Age
35

Probable cause (from PRE1982.MDB)

D.ACFT DMG & INJURY INDEX PRESUMED.

Investigator remarks

PLT RPRTD ENG ON FIRE & DITCHING.ACFT NOT LOCATE

Cause factors

  • 84/A/I A
    MISCELLANEOUS UNDETERMINED Cause — pilot/personnel action
  • 88/J/51 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FIRE IN ENGINE Joint cause
  • 88/J/88 J
    MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS AIRCRAFT CAME TO REST IN WATER Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table).

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3225. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3225.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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