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| | MIA06TA093 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | On April 18, 2006, about 0908 Atlantic standard time, a Piper PA-31-310, N554DJ, registered to and operated by the Department of Justice of the United States Virgin Islands, as a public-use flight, ditched in the Caribbean Sea while on approach to land at the Cyril King, Charlotte Amalie, Airport, Saint Thomas, United States Virgin Island. |
 | | The pilot stated that during his descent toward the airport, at about an indicated altitude of 1,400 feet agl, the left engine started to surge. |
 | | He immediately turned on the electrical fuel boost pumps and ensured that all of the engines control levers were forward. |
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