Date & Time

19 December 2005 at 1430LT

Crew on board

2

Type of Aircraft

Pax on board

18

Company name

Crew fatalities

2

Registration

Pax fatalities

18

Location

Off Miami Beach, Florida

Schedule

Flight OP101 Miami - Bimini (Bahamas)

Total fatalities

20

Construction number

J-27

Year of manufacture

1947

Few minutes after takeoff from Miami hydrobase, the amphibian aircraft plunged into the sea few hundred meters off shore. It seems that an explosion occurred inflight and that the aircraft lost its right wing. All occupants were killed. This accident is the worse involving a Grumman G-73 Turbo Mallard.