Incident Overview
On November 16, 1989, an aircraft departed on a ferry flight from Santa Barbara, California, across the Pacific Ocean to the Hawaiian Islands. The pilot made a routine position report at 0846 hours while over DINTY intersection at an altitude of 8,000 feet MSL. This was the last known communication with the aircraft.
Search and Rescue Efforts
After no further communications were received from the aircraft by any ground facility, an Alert Notice (ALNOT) was issued. Search and rescue operations commenced at the flight's estimated fuel exhaustion time of 0216 hours on November 17, 1989. Despite these efforts, no trace of the aircraft or the pilot was found.