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| Date: | Thursday 27 April 1978 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Cessna 402B |
| Owner/operator: | South Pacific Islands Airways |
| Registration: | N3SP |
| MSN: | 402B0930 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1975 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Mount Vaaifetu Richard, Upolu -
 Samoa
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Pago-Pago, American Samoa |
| Faleolo, Samoa | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Controlled flight into terrain. Cause of crash attributed to pilot attempting visual approach over mountainous terrain without ensuring clearance over that terrain. Flight was a single pilot IFR night flight.
Sources:
1. NTSB
World Directory of Airliner Crashes/Terry Denham
2. Flight Safety (NZ), 1979, Vol 6 No 3.
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 22-May-2009 04:46 | XLerate | Updated |
| 06-Jan-2011 15:41 | TB | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Cn, Other fatalities, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 26-Nov-2021 00:06 | Ron Averes | Updated [Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
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