Status: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Datum: | Donnerstag 19 Januar 1967 |
Zeit: | 13:59 |
Flugzeugtyp: | Vickers 745D Viscount |
Fluggesellschaft: | United Airlines |
Kennzeichen: | N7431 |
Werknummer: | 129 |
Baujahr: | 1956 |
Besatzung: | Todesopfer: 0 / Insassen: 4 |
Fluggäste: | Todesopfer: 0 / Insassen: 46 |
Gesamt: | Todesopfer: 0 / Insassen: 50 |
Sachschaden: | Zerstört |
Konsequenzen: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
Unfallort: | Norfolk Municipal Airport, VA (ORF) ( USA)
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Flugphase: | Landung (LDG) |
Betriebsart: | Inländischer planmäßiger Passagierflug |
Flug von: | ? |
Flug nach: | Norfolk Municipal Airport, VA (ORF/KORF), USA |
Unfallbericht:A snow tractor taxied into the path of a United Air Lines Viscount which was just landing. The Viscount collided with the snow plough, ripping open the airplane's belly and tearing off one of the wings.
Probable Cause:
PROBABLE CAUSES:
personnel - miscellaneous-personnel: driver of vehicle
personnel - airport supervisory personnel: other
miscellaneous acts,conditions - instructions-misinterpreted
FACTOR(S):
miscellaneous acts, conditions - overload failure
Informationsquelle:
» NTSB
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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.