by Dr. Greg Little -
In 2005 my wife (Dr. Lora Little) and I were exploring Andros with Bahamas' guides Krista and Eslie Brown. At that time we were not particularly interested in crashed planes, but we had noticed several crashed planes on the ground and in shallow water around Andros. Exploring the island itself from a small truck, the Browns took us to the tail section of a small plane located by the shore at Red Bays, a small settlement at extreme NW Andros.
According to locals, the tail piece had drifted to the shore a few years earlier. They dragged it to the shore, and simply ignored it. In 2007, after finding numerous other planes in various underwater spots, we decided to revisit the tail and try to identify it. After publishing a brief article about the tail section wherein we tentatively identified it as a plane reportedly lost in the Bermuda Triangle, we received confirmation from several plane mechanics and pilots that the tail was of a Cessna 172-H, and of the correct vintage—circa 1966.
