Fort Lauderdale - Eleuthera Island

On November 5, 1982 at 04:54 PM, Fort Lauderdale - Eleuthera Island experienced a crash involving Beechcraft 80 Queen Air, operated by L. F. Vanstone Jr., with the event recorded near Bimini Bimini.

The flight was categorized as private and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

3 people were known to be on board, 3 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 1, passenger fatalities: 1, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is weather. The flight departed Fort Lauderdale at 1626 and at 1654 in the vicinity of Bimini was advised to contact Nassau radio. The flight failed to contact Nassau and there were no further communications with the flight. Search efforts produced negative results. IMC prevailed on the proposed route of flight. Radar depictions showed the most severe weather to be between Miami and Bimini. Sigmet 7 issued at 1455 showed an area of embedded thunderstorms extending to a point 100 miles east of Miami with tops to 40,000 feet that was moving ne at 15 knots. The wreckage and all three occupants were not recovered.

Aircraft reference details include registration N1HQ, MSN LD-275, year of manufacture 1966.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 25.4187°, -79.2041°.