page_title: Grumman G-73 Mallard
section_title: Chalks flight 101 in 2005
hierarchical_section_title: Grumman G-73 Mallard / Incidents / Chalks flight 101 in 2005
caption_attribution_description: Chalk's International Turbo Mallard at Bimini Seaplane base, Bahamas, registration number N2969. On 19 December 2005, this aircraft crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Miami Beach, Florida.
context_page_description: The Grumman G-73 Mallard is a medium, twin-engined amphibious aircraft. Many have been modified by replacing the original Pratt & Whitney Wasp H radial engines with modern turboprop engines. Manufactured from 1946 to 1951, production ended when Grumman's larger SA-16 Albatross was introduced.
context_section_description: Chalk's Ocean Airways purchased Mallard N1208 from the Fruehauf Corporation and later acquired several other examples of the aircraft. The type received much attention after a Turbo Mallard, operating as Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101, crashed after takeoff from Miami Harbor on 19 December 2005 bound for Bimini, Bahamas. Eighteen passengers and two crew perished when the right wing separated from the fuselage of the 58-year-old aircraft. The cause of the accident was determined by the subsequent investigation to be undetected cracks and/or corrosion in the wing spar.
  Prior to 2005, Chalk's Ocean Airways had an exemplary safety record operating Mallards for many years between Florida and the Bahamas, having never had a passenger fatality since the company began operations in 1917.
caption: Turbo Mallard of Chalks International Airline on a scheduled service at Bimini, Bahamas, in November 1989 after arriving from Miami Harbor.
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