Elizabeth City - Elizabeth City

On August 25, 2018 at 12:00 AM, Elizabeth City - Elizabeth City experienced a crash involving Grumman G-64 Albatross, operated by Stargazer Aero, with the event recorded near Atlantic Ocean All World.

The flight was categorized as meteorological / weather and the reported phase was takeoff (climb) at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

5 people were known to be on board, 0 fatalities were recorded, 5 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 0.0%.

Crew on board: 5, crew fatalities: 0, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The crew departed Elizabeth City CGAS in North Carolina to deploy weather buoys in the Atlantic Ocean. Several landings were completed successfully. While taking off, the seaplane struck an unkknown object floating on water and came to rest some 680 km east off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. All five crew members evacuated the cabin and were later recovered by the crew of a container vessel. The aircraft sank and was lost.

Aircraft reference details include registration N1955G, MSN G-406, year of manufacture 1954.