Date: | Tuesday 20 May 1958 |
Time: | 11:29 |
Type: | Vickers 745D Viscount |
Owner/operator: | Capital Airlines |
Registration: | N7410 |
MSN: | 108 |
Year of manufacture: | 1956 |
Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Dart 510 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 11 |
Other fatalities: | 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | 6,4 km NE of Brunswick, MD -
United States of America
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Pittsburgh International Airport, PA (PIT/KPIT) |
Destination airport: | Baltimore-Glenn L. Martin Airport, MD (MTN/KMTN) |
Investigating agency: | CAB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Viscount N7410 was descending en route from Pittsburgh to Baltimore on an IFR flight plan, but in VFR conditions.
An Air National Guard Lockheed T-33A aircraft (53-5966) took off from Martin Airport at 11:07 for a VFR proficiency flight. Just before the collision the aircraft were observed in the area west of Brunswick flying parallel easterly courses with the T-33 some distance behind and to the left of the Viscount. The T-33 quickly overtook the Viscount and made a gentle right turn during which it struck the forward left side of the fuselage of the Viscount at 8000 feet. Both aircraft crashed, but one of the T-33 crewmembers ejected safely.
At the time of the collision the Viscount flew at an airspeed of 235 knots and the T-33 at 290 kts; giving a rate of closure of 195kts.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The failure of the T-33 pilot to exercise a proper and adequate vigilance to see and avoid other traffic."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | CAB |
Report number: | final report |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
ICAO Accident Digest, Circular 59-AN/54 (139-149)
Location
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photo (c) Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB); near Brunswick, MD; 20 May 1958; (publicdomain)
photo (c) Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB); near Brunswick, MD; 20 May 1958; (publicdomain)
photo (c) Aviation Safety Network
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