Dyan Marie Jenkins, 26, was a licensed private pilot with single- and multi-engine ratings who vanished after a flight from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on September 1, 1981. She was flying a single-engine 1976 Piper Lance to Grand Caicos Island to pick up lobsters. During the flight she issued a mayday heard by an Eastern Airlines pilot; she reported running out of fuel, over deep water with several ships nearby, and the pilot advised her on ditching. After about 25 minutes of radio contact her final transmission was "It’s quitting," and all contact ceased.

A search recovered the plane’s yellow life raft four days later; the raft was identified by serial number about a mile off Great Inagua Island in the southeastern Bahamas, roughly sixty miles from the planned destination. No wreckage of the Piper Lance or Jenkins were found, and she is presumed lost at sea. Little else is known from the record.

Did anyone ever hear more from flight crews or vessels in the area that day, or have information about debris reports near Great Inagua Island?