Accident description
Last updated: 23 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 17 JAN 1963 |
| Time: | 15:53 MST |
| Type: | Fairchild F-27 |
| Operator: | West Coast Airlines |
| Registration: | N2703 |
| C/n / msn: | 6 |
| First flight: | 1958 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 11708 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Great Salt Lake, UT (United States of America) |
| Phase: | Maneuvering (MNV) |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Salt Lake City Municipal Airport, UT (SLC/KSLC), United States of America |
| Salt Lake City Municipal Airport, UT (SLC/KSLC), United States of America | |
| Flightnumber: | 703 |
Crashed into Great Salt Lake when conducting a simulated emergency descent during a training flight.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The crew's lack of vigilance, for undetermined reasons, in not checking the descent before striking the water." Sources:
» ICAO Accident Digest No.15 - Volume I, Circular 78-AN/66 (3-7)
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Distance from Salt Lake City Municipal Airport, UT to Salt Lake City Municipal Airport, UT as the crow flies is 0 km (0 miles).
Distance from Salt Lake City Municipal Airport, UT to Salt Lake City Municipal Airport, UT as the crow flies is 0 km (0 miles).
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
