Ferg's Air Piper PA-31-350 accident
Piper PA-31-350 · Accident
From Governor's Harbour Airport (MYEM) to Lynden Pindling International Airport (MYNN)
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA15WA067
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Piper PA-31-350
- Aircraft type
- Piper PA-31
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- C6-REV
- Operator
- Ferg's Air
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Governor's Harbour Airport (MYEM), Governour HrbrTo Lynden Pindling International Airport (MYNN), Nassau
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On December 2, 2014, about 0845 eastern standard time, a Piper PA-31-350, Bahamian registration C6-REV, operated as Southern Air Flight 302, was destroyed after ditching and submerging in the ocean after a loss of engine power on its right engine while maneuvering for landing at Lynden Pindling International Airport (MYNN), Nassau, Bahamas. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed, and visual flight rules flight plan was filed. The passenger flight departed from Govenour's Harbour Eleuthera (MYEM), Governor's Harbour, Bahamas. The pilot and passengers successfully egressed the airplane and were rescued, but one passenger later died due to a medical emergency.
According to the Air Accident Investigation & Prevention Unit (AAIPU) of the Bahamas Civil Aviation Department, the airplane was on a visual approach to MYNN when it experienced "landing gear problems." The pilot conducted a fly-by of the air traffic control tower to gain visual confirmation of the status of the landing gear before he maneuvered for a second attempt to land. While maneuvering, the right engine stopped producing power.
The pilot reported that it then became "difficult to maintain altitude" and that he was forced to perform an emergency landing to the water 6 miles from shore.
This accident investigation is under the jurisdiction of Air Accident Investigation & Prevention Unit (AAIPU) of the Bahamas Civil Aviation Department. Any further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Delvin R. Major Investigator-In-Charge (IIC) Tel: 242-376-1617, 242-377-3445/8 or email: aaipu.bcaa@gmail.com or website: www.aaipu-bcaa.com P. O. Box AP-59018 Upstairs old Airport Terminal, Lynden Pindling International Airport Nassau, N. P., Bahamas This report is for informational purposes only, and contains only information released by or obtained from the Government of Bahamas.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA15WA067
- Event ID
- 20141202X24526
- Case number
- ERA15WA067
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: bbeade9323da0bdae6133281be4faa431520efb2ff6da03e9d6f8690e2281cba; retrieved 2026-09-16T01:57:21.060Z.