Piper PA-32-260 Crash in Honduras with 5 (Americans and Canadians) Dead
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Piper PA-32-260 Crash in Honduras with 5 (Americans and Canadians) Dead
Five foreigners including the pilot died on Saturday when their private plane crashed into the sea shortly after taking off from Roatan island, a tourist destination on the Atlantic coast of Honduras, local authorities said.
Update from CBC News. The pilot was a Canadian living in Honduras. The passengers were US citizens.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hondur...dian-1.5142112
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/hondur...dian-1.5142112
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Aviation-safety.net entry:
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/225218
Photo of that type airplane:
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1319741
https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/225218
Photo of that type airplane:
https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1319741
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Photos circulating in PA32 circles suggest that the aircraft had been converted to club seating configuration from the conventional 6 forward facing arrangement. Such a conversion is not authorised for that aircraft.
Really? I thought I had flown lots of them in that configuration.
Quite possibly, but you are unlikely to have flown a PA-32-260, like the accident aircraft, in a legal club configuration. Only the last 30 of the 1500 -260s built (1977 onwards) are identified on the TC as having provision for club seating. N260TM was built in 1966.
Accident aircraft had the serial 32-689, you're certainly on the money Dave. Find the serial number convention used confusing, permissible aircraft are S/N 32-7700001 through 32-7800008, how does that equate to 30 aircraft Dave? I assume the first two figures represent year of build.
Accident aircraft had the serial 32-689, you're certainly on the money Dave. Find the serial number convention used confusing, permissible aircraft are S/N 32-7700001 through 32-7800008, how does that equate to 30 aircraft Dave? I assume the first two figures represent year of build.
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One lives and learns... I had always assumed the 260 was a short lived production aircraft superseded by the 300. Presume the 260 didn't have the seventh kiddy seat? I know they didn't all have it.
Presume the 260 didn't have the seventh kiddy seat? I know they didn't all have it.